Perseverance

My life full of pain; my heart fill with hate.
It's starting to become more than I can take.
I've never won; I've never been given
Any crown for which I have striven.

Everyone reminds me I'm going to fall
And will never climb these mountains so tall.
So I sit here alone, no purpose in life
And take what it gives, whether happiness or strife.

I cannot rise up. I cannot succeed
though all the books in the world I might read.
Life is so empty, so hollow and vain.
I cannot take all this hatred and pain.

I hate those who are good at whatever they do.
For if they only saw; if they only knew
What I have taken; what I've been through,
To come as far as I have; I'm surprised too.

But I will rise and overcome
The complacent person I have become.
I will no longer sit and lie on the ground.
Now at new heights my soul will be found.

I will keep on fighting though I should fall
And will keep going on and nevermore stall.
I will show everyone I am a man
And will find a purpose on which to stand.