We've to experience weakness
to be able to harness
strength and courage
for what it teaches

but for being thrown
into life's hottest furnace
that has scorched us
we'd still be lulled
into our realm
of self-indulgent comfort-

the old must die
for the new
to be brought forth

though weak and frail
I'm never broken
as into the light
I stepped
from the blackness
of the darkest