Born Stubborn

Stubborn and unmoving

Backing down is not an option

Displaying weakness

A moment’s sign of misjudgment

Stubborn and persistent

Giving up means naught

Giving out means all

Following through until the end

Stubborn and willful

Knowing the want

Wanting the dream

Dreaming becomes reality

Stubborn and unyielding

Taking each destructive denial

Accepting each blowing bullet

Embracing each rearing rejection

Stubborn and intractable

Aching to the core with need

Needing with your all to complete

Completing self only with them

Stubborn and sweet

Fantasies coming true

Life’s work so long paying off

Fighting for that residing in heart

Stubborn and strong

Aspirations and innovations bloom

Breaking down impossible barriers

Standing for that dwelling the mind

Stubborn and soulful

Dripping blood, sweat, tears

Radiating joy, love, pride

Believing in that invading the spirit

Stubborn as always

Holding back nothing

Pushing forth through all Fog.

Rain. Snow. Sleet. Hail. Sun.

Test and Tears

If loving is such a crime

I will gladly do the time

Pass this test and the tears

Taking it on with no fears

Caught in the lie

Fearing plenty though I try

Not to succumb to giving up

Not merely some lovesick pup

Thrashed and beaten through this course

Roughly bashed in river’s force

The waters of love, patchy and cruel

But leading to beauty and life fuel

Nights in bed, mind conflicted

Mornings in hiding, feeling constricted

The waters of love and waters of pain

Flow together from the eyes they stain

But this test will be beaten

As I knew all along, victory then

All worthwhile through wait and ache

As it was for your and my sake

Times gone by so swiftly sly

Such a history in short span by

Knowing one like the other

That differences can’t smother

All so clear and linked

Each thought seems synced

Yet couldn’t be further apart

In everything other than thy heart

Such unusual beginnings start

Before even aware of such a part

Hurt for that of one elsewhere

In memory linked a pair

First and foremost such care

To the extents of despair

Still trudging persistently

Dreams crushed reviving lively