Failure

Frank Marshall DavisSad

I would sing a song but I have no words I would hum a tune but I have no melody

success like grains of brown sand at the sea-shore slips through my nerveless fingers

the world has not time even to laugh.

Frank Marshall Davis
SourceLicence:Public domain (US, unrenewed)
Mood:
Sad
Topics:
song, sand, shore, failure, success

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