What is strength to you?

Many thanks so my muse: Dalek Mar-Mar for the conversation that led me to think of this!

What is strength to you?

 

Is it benching your bodyweight?

Is it running farther to make

that last touchdown?

 

Is it walking out on the stage?

Is it not dropping the first page

of your speech?

 

What is strength to us?

 

Is it chocking back pain inside?

Is it hiding the tears you cried

a moment before?

 

Is it norming to society?

Is it destroying your piety

to finally fit in?

 

What is strength to me?

 

Strength is

not giving up

     when all around you is darkness and hatred

     and you don’t know where to turn.

 

Strength is

shielding them

     from the pain and the cruelty and the depravity

     of the fallen creation and the fallen image.

 

Strength is

acknowledging

     that you’ve done everything wrong

     and there is only one who can help save you.

 

Strength is

surrendering all

     without pause or cause to the Father

      because He can change the poison to riches.

 

Strength is

declaring belief

      to the Son who declares us to His Father

      and changes us from unwanted to desired in His eyes.

 

Strength is

ceding control

     to the Spirit that takes us from the edge of instability

     and moves us to complete insolubility and fidelity.

 

Strength is submitting to the alchemy of the love of the Highest.

 

Author's Note

Please tell me what you thought of the rhyming pattern in the beginning and the alchemy allusion in the end.

Reviews

[Lesley]

this s really good
the patern just works with it

[Alex R.]

You're being brainwashed by your school...they're finally getting to you. I like the allusion in the end. I don't think you had to put the last line in though...it seems kinda obvious.

[{Rated Vee For FAMOUS}]

the ryhme scheme gets a little choppy sometimes, but the way the sentences break up is good.
lol, didnt get the allusion for a second, had a stupid moment :)

[nightmask]

woah it's really good :)

[C.J.]

i likes the beginning and the end had to be read thru 3 times to understand but a very good poem in all.