Poetry - I Shall Endure

I Shall Endure

Here I stand, staring eternity in the face

Stuck in place, in this broken shell

They ask, How can you stand it?

And I ask them, How can I not?

There are so many roads yet untraveled

So many doorways still closed

There are windows that yearn to be unshuttered

Trails that call to be blazed

I will not lay where I’ve fallen

I refuse to remain in the muck and mire

I exist through the thunder and the lightening

I push on through the weight of the pain

There are so many things to experience

Whole chapters of the story yet untold

I will not run from ghouls and monsters

I refuse to submit to the fear

Still I stand, though I am shattered

Plodding on, dragging the chains of my past

They ask, How is it that you can go on?

And I ask them, How can I not?

Great swathes of the globe unexplored

So much of the world I’ve not seen

There are footprints to be left in sand

Hearts and lives to be a part of

I will not let slip my grip on life

I will follow wherever it might lead

I bear the hatred of mine enemies

I bask in the love of kith and clan

An unseen pattern to be weft and woven

A whispered voice to heed

I will not turn my face from the fire

I shall not let the darkness reign