It's Never About Your Weakness

Many fling their potential away

Because they are disappointed or discouraged

We fail

We don't want to stand up again

We muck things up

We don't want to try doing things right again

We trip once more

And in anger, at the catapult of fear,

Fear of the eyes and words of people,

We quit

We throw away everything we've been running for

We say

What's so great about the prize anyway

We shout

What's the big deal

I can have a great life without it

Retreat,

Step back,

Listen and see,

That we are nothing

We aren't capable of cleaning ourselves up,

Of doing what we visualised and dreamt.

It's never about how weak you are,

Because he can strengthen the weakest

He can wisen the simplest

But he can never

Touch any grain of pride.

Any atom of doubt.

Any spot of false humility.

The hungry may be weak

But they can be fed

And grow strong

To do things they thought they could never do

Let the weak

Shame the wise

I am weak

But you are strong