POEM: STRENGTH

 STRENGTH

Everytime I look through old notes    

I am reminded of a girl that wept

Wept on paper while ink poured

While the ink poured and my heart bleeds

And my heart bled with eyes filled with tears

For the only place I could rant

Was well on paper

I don’t do that anymore

Now I weep in the secret

In the deepest places of my heart

And turn up the next day

to prove to myself, I am strong

Because I am

I am because of the fight, I have fought

I am because of the scars I bear

I am because I now know when to breakdown

I am because I have the strength

To pick myself up

I am because I believe I am

And the truth is, you are too

Strength is not in not weeping

Strength is not in not failing

Strength is weeping and having the will

To wipe the tears

Strength is in not being afraid to acknowledge weakness

Strength is in failing

And not being afraid to fail again

Strength is not giving up fight until the fight is over