Lonely Road ~

It isn't always accomplishment that counts

sometimes it is just the going on in the face of defeat

to those who go on!

The man or woman who never achieves 

yet never ceases

hoping, striving, dreaming!

Those who work and wait - for "Ships That Never Come In!" 

has their earnestness here started something 

that shall flower into reality somewhere beyond?

To the man who goes on 

when it seems to him 

that he just cannot carry his load

to the woman who smiles 

in the face of defeat 

at the end of the lonely road

these are the heroes 

I give you tonight 

they may fail, but they never say yield

"May hope be the angel"

who smiles in their eyes 

when they close them 

on earth's battlefield!