Fragility is strength

Fragility is strength

Flesh

So easily torn

Bones broken

Snapping as tinder

Greensticks split

Under duress

As joints crack

So the back is bowed

Weighed down

By more than woes

Moving a precarious

Folly

Driven to continue

Fueled by desperation

When hope is scarce

Determinants fire

The imagination

Into rapture

The euphoria of survival

A ravishing prospect

In extremis

When burdens

Are greatest

Grandeur is

A single step

Forward

Courage a wonder

Of small victories

Barely seen

Beyond the mask

Survivors wear

Hearts as badges

Honour lies

In the stubborn fragility

Of their beating