A Life Spent Mostly in Defeat

Is how one writer
Recently described
Being a writer.

But that’s exactly
The best description
For other humans,

For other creatures,
All organisms
For that matter, if

You follow the way
Defeat was parsed there—
Determination

After each failure
To risk more failure.
Hardly just writers.

Hardly just humans.
The essence of life,
To be defeated

Again and again
But to keep trying
Until the life’s gone.