No Matter

Doesn't matter if I don't win the gymnastics. I know that my speech is graceful.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the marathon. I know that I endure.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the swimming. I know that I don't tread water.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the archery. I know that my words hit the target.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the cyclying. I know my destination.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the tennis. I know I am volley good.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the syncronised swimming. I go thru my life holding my breath.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the sailing. I know that the sea will be no more.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the diving. I know that the angels will save me from being felled.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the pole vault. I know I am for hi-er hites.

Doesn't matter if I don't win the hurdles. I step over them every day.

I Win

i win because i don't mind losing

i win because i play no game

i win because i be cause

i win because i want what fate wants

i win because i make an art of failure

i win because optimism changes the goalposts

i win because don't all of us lose?

i win because it would be awkward if i ever did

i win because i lose and lose my target

i win because i'm poor enough to appreciate what's rich

i win because i like to watch you winning

i win because i lose so often i can still look forward to winning

It Matters Not

It matters not if I walk when I can write my way to anywhere.

It matters not if I sing if I don't have the voice for it.

It matters not if I live if I inspire suicide.

It matters not if I dream when dreams are all that lead me on.

It matters not if I breathe when I go thru life holding breath.

It matters not what I look like when I hold up a mirror to you.

It matters not if I exist when I'm worth more on dying.

It matters not if it matters not if there's not matter for it to be.

It matters not if I'm fatter or I'm flatter if you scatter.

It matters not if I think if I do it without ink.

It matters not if I listen to this song if it tells me I don't belong.

It matters not if I work if you work not to see me.

It matters not if I be if you don't acknowledge me.

I'd Succeed

I'd succeed but I run out of time by counting the seconds without a clock.

I'd succeed but my pen runs out from using it or dries up from never using it at all.

I'd succeed but I succeed even better at failure.

I'd succeed but I draw so long in black and white that I start to call colors different shades
of grey.

I'd succeed but I can only remember that I can't remember what I am told.

I'd succeed but I spend so long staring at clouds that I don't see them getting ready to rain
on me.

I'd succeed but I like being made humble. And like it I must!

I'd succeed but I try not to try and don't do what I want to do.

I'd succeed but I have a succession of failure to emulate.

I'd succeed but failure is my friend. 

Doesn't Matter

It matters not if I'm hot when you're so cool
It matters not if my genius trips me up for a fool
It matters not if I go to college if I've leapfrogged school
It matters not if I reign if someone's raining on my rule

Doesn't matter doesn't matter
Matters not
Scatter drops with ink blot
Matters not matters not
It doesn't matter
If I count up all I've not got

It doesn't matter if I sleep when I've no bed
It matters not the words in my silent head
Doesn't matter what I say when I don't speak
It matters not the size of the waterfall
in the unplugged leak

Doesn't matter doesn't matter
It matters not
If you can see thru that spoiled ink blot
It doesn't matter about the art if I've not got heart
It matters not if I never finish if I ever start

You say it matters but I'm not sure
I'm like the shell that's speaking to no-one
On the lonely shore
Ants they scatter
Pigs get fatter
Does it matter anymore
Are you sure
There's any sense in the clothes we wore?

Doesn't matter
Don't matter anymore
It matters not matters not
What anything's for.