What Gives Beating Hearts Strength

Would a lesser spine break under the weight of tribulation that persists past the arc of perceptual balance? Atlas shrugged, and Achilles knelt in fear that he would never get up again. What gives a soul the strength it needs to labor through an ache with no cusp? Can any being with the necessary conviction become victorious? Or are some destined to break under the boot of life's ugliness? Tired men ask themselves these questions every day, taking comfort in the fact that no one can hear them. They would be seen as cowards in the face of their peers ...Even though they all look in the same mirror, hoping for a reflection with some sort of consistency. Some sense that they are accomplishing what they were put here for. We're all being put to the "Test", and yet no one truly knows what that means. Maybe it's the mirror.. Maybe it's what we accept after each day, when we're tired and broken. Maybe.... If we have the courage to hold our heads up and look ourselves in they eyes and know in our hearts that we're truly present inside ourselves. Maybe... I think. That's what gives beating hearts strength. -James Kelley 2013, All rights reserved.