Succession

Seems sweet at first, so bittersweet,
but life comes in, knocks you from your feet,
tragedy strikes onto you, in a heart beat,
feels like a race, but there's no need to compete,
it feels like you've lost, but you still keep running,
defeat is so pure, but you smile and start humming,
life is good, at its best and its worst,
even if you don't succeed at first.