True Strength

True Strength is needing nothing and giving everything

True strength is holding up the people you love

The people you’ve chosen to love

And never asking them to return the favor

True strength is not born

True strength is earned each moment

By overcoming cowardice

Again

And again

And again

A hero is born

Nay, a hero is forged

They say fatigue makes cowards of us all

I say fatigue makes heroes of us all

For only when we are fatigued

When we are defeated

When we are alone and abandoned

When we can’t take another step or breathe another breath

We do

This is your moment

This is your choice

This is your battlefield

All Heroes require a battlefield

So get up you weary traveler

Your bliss is calling