Strength wears many facets
Ita more than muscles, sharp and lean.
Patience and endurance are the pillars
that holds us when all else shakes

Strength is not in sorrowa shadow,
not in surrender to despair,
but in rising again and again, despite the doubtful glow
even when the weight feels too much to bear.

Hardships are even meant to break us, and belong to life
but then we stand up again, we are alive
face our fears and not just look at them through a window
to eradicate our flaws in order to refine and grow

If a storm comes, we endure
Like a rock in the surf, strong and sure
Each wound is a sign that growth takes pain
Each trial a lesson, and every scar is a signature of growth
proof that you endured and evolved.

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Valnuary, in the year 975 AF.