What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but how much stronger do I have to be?
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,
but how much stronger do I have to be?
Can someone tell me the truth
about this mystical reality
claim that calls for help will be answered,
that we should place trust in humanity?
Yet the stories we hear over time and space
are those of dissent, violence and cruelty.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,
but how much stronger do I have to be?
To say the light of life must be found from within
but not in its entirety
is to say power exists where we cannot see,
like prisoners of our own being,
in the worldly realm of reality,
liberation is a dream of solidarity so freeing.
but this strength is not to be lusted for,
sought after like rain in a drought.
It does not come with riches,
or black and white paper bridges
between people torn apart by
open wounds of the painful past.
It is present in the vulnerability
we try so hard to outcast.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,
and I don’t know how much stronger we need to be,
but if ever you struggle with waking up in the morning,
trust that the power is in you and me.