I am the unyielding marrow of storms,
the pulse that refuses to faint in darkness.
When the world bent beneath the weight of plague,
and every street became a whisper of grief,
I sharpened my silence into steel.
They said rest, forget, dissolve,
but my spirit does not know surrender.
Even in the stillness of white-walled chambers,
where clocks dissolved into endless waiting
and footsteps echoed like distant thunder,
I carried a secret fire—
a flame unwilling to be extinguished.
Misunderstandings rose like barbed wire
between me and the world I loved,
but I learned the language of resilience:
how to speak through scars,
how to translate silence into survival,
how to braid fury with tenderness
and call it hope.
Illness came like a thief in the night,
stripping lungs, isolating souls,
yet I breathed deeper—
each breath an act of rebellion,
each heartbeat a vow:
I will not vanish,
I will not crumble.
War raged outside and inside alike—
battles no one saw but me.
The frontlines were my own thoughts,
my enemy the shadow of despair.
But even when my mind turned
into a hurricane of breaking glass,
I remembered:
I am both storm and lighthouse,
both wound and sword.
Call me stubborn, call me relentless—
I will answer to both.
For I have walked through hell
and stolen embers from its fires.
I have stood in the ruins of yesterday
and sung tomorrow into being.
And if the world asks why I still rise,
even when dawn delays its coming,
I will say this:
Because there is a warrior in me
who has sworn an oath—
to see the light,
to become the light,
even when the sun itself
forgets to rise