at times my heat hurts
sometimes my soul bleeds
i can feel my breath slipping away from me
this reality at time i cannot grasp
but alas this feeling does not last
it grips me uses me abuses me
but it cannot nor will it destroy me
i'm barely afloat in a turbulent sea
but this pain will not get the best of me
i have all to live and everything to to gain
which on any day outweighs the pain
i struggle but i am not beaten
i cry but i am not done
i try i try i try i try so hard...maybe too hard i try
fighter is my birth and fighter i will die
victim is my battle but war is not my life