A Fore Gone Conclusion

to you my life became a foregone conclusion did you truly believe that my failure was certain? a pre-determined path I was meant to follow Was I nothing more to you than a character in a sad tale? Did you truly know me? that you could predict what a challenged life would mean for me invisible overlooked and just as easily tossed away You seemed to have won as the light slowly darkened around me I stumbled, I lost my way my strength to fight any longer did I give up or maybe I was just given up on when I lost my footing and the limitations imposed by this world thrust me to change I heard you laugh it was subtle, but the sound rang with a relief of my failure You thought I was deaf to your words You thought that my diminishing sight would blur me from seeing just who you really were you said I was damaged cast me as a burden It was then that you left me alone on my knees on the ground you never turned back you seemed amused to hear of the reports of my demise as Twain said, “They would be greatly exaggerated” although surely challenged by those who were in love with my relevance but not with the fall instead of your support to hold up my strength you denied me and stretched my pain across a circus stage But I refuse to be a footnote I am the author the one who sets this pace I am the protagonist the hero I am showered in divine grace So think what you will Just don’t try to judge I have battled fierce demons to get here they now are on notice to flee at any mere sighting of me what you didn’t see in my true depth was resilience to rise from any fire and breakthrough any chains my unshakable spirit which you failed to see, is unrelenting and alive, and always determined to flourish and survive