Survive Alive!

Life becomes mere existence, when you're mercilessly deprived of everything you've hoped and dreamed and worked and strived. When all your dreams are shattered, like shards of daggered glass then there are no "good" times, simply years you must make pass. Hours to endure with dignity, while peace flies with the wind. While you search inner soul for courage to rise again. To be laughed at by the ignorant, to be cursed and called a fool, by those who do not share your plight, by the foolish, callous cruel. Then you must summon every resource, make your mind a blade of steel to skewer each advantage and bend it to your will. In the war with your tormentors, you can't let yourself be weak. You must plan on your every action, always think before you speak. Your heart and mind cannot be read so, you must let your actions speak of the individual deep inside, of the soul that is unique. Only by mastering your secret self can you hope to gain the prize, of inner strength and patience and serenity of the wise. To be knocked down repeatedly, only to rise again to fight. There's something quite indomitable about those who champion right. To brave a path's that difficult on a way that's long and rough, builds character and resilience, patient. kind yet tough. To know sadness so unbearable, it makes your poor heart bleed, without breaking 'neath the pressure, makes happiness gold indeed. Suffering teaches gratitude for lack of pain and woe. Patience always bridges change and brings us time to grow. Patience and serenity are necessary to survive and hope springs up eternal, as long as we're alive.