The Greatest Success

So many promises I could hardly contain,
Bright light left a sunburn like a stain.
Every day the light of hope slowly wanes,
Chances, I took many, with so much to gain.
The next letdown may be the one I can't sustain,
The last cloud to form before the rain.
All efforts have resulted in a defeated pain,
Options now exhausted, only one more remains.
Where fading hope and experience collide, nothing short of an intervention divine could bring me back to life.

Gifted with traits plentiful and blessed,
At some good, others maybe the best.
I thought the sun would never move west,
As I ventured into this foolhardy quest.
With time expectations I came to detest,
Foolish to think I would rise above the rest.
In the thick of tumult I failed every test,
A self-defined failure with one last request.
The greatest failure is the ultimate success, for nothing radiates beauty more than through the eyes of death.