Inner Strength
Inner strength
When under your wings, ill wind dwells
Stuck knee-deep in life’s expansive marsh
Bobbed about by its unending swells
Your curse it seems, is strangely harsh
Then, hope’s decaying carcass’ putrid stench
Ooze from your pores, each and every day
Your burning courage, subdued by its drench
Eroded, confidence chooses the other way
You're pressured to the brink of life’s rink
On poisoned booze for a permanent snooze
A noose, or other ways, your mind can think
You now ponder, for there’s nothing to lose
My dear friend, of this truth, I must speak
You’re much stronger than you’ll ever know
So when life is hell, to your inner self peek
And seek that strength that always lies low
Your fate you’d think may in perpetuity hatch
Dark patches, to put you through the wringer
On that inner strength, you must learn to latch
Adversity may tarry, but will never forever linger.
Feb 10, 2018
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