The nothingness felt once upon a day

Has given me the strength to carry on 

From it I’ve learned to keep the dark at bay

Although at times my own firmness seems gone

 

I try my best to keep myself aloft

Buoyed alone upon a swelling tide

And though that buoy bursts quite oft

I patch it up, and from that depth abide

 

Sometimes I feel a toughness in my heart,

That keeps my mind afloat upon the waves,

Without the thoughts that tear my brain apart,

Instead of lost within undersea caves.

 

And only since my soul once died inside:

I am powerful; in that I take pride.

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