Struggle+Lessons=Success

We cuss the skies, we hate the world, we even sometimes loose our faith in our religion when pain hit us. I know how it feels because I have been there several times over!! I lost my parents a year in a half ago and to this day I still have my "moments". I know some of you are saying well that was your parents you have the right to have your "moments". I reply to you saying but what does that accomplish?? They are gone! Pain is the predecessor to success. Begin looking at pain or struggle as opportunities rather than hardships and see how different your life becomes before your very eyes. Nothing is considered bad or terrible when everything is a lesson that needed to be learned!

Pain is in my rearview,

Grief and despair are no long in my clear view.

I have been through the rough, rugged, and raw,

Man only if you knew what I saw.

I have been defeated, beaten, and trampled by pain,

Yet Im a warrior who refuses to be slain.

When I used to cry and fold,

Now I stand tall,head high, and no longer feel cold.

My strength has provided me warmth in the coldest winter,

I feel proud, joyous, no longer bitter.

That mountain...YES I have climbed, that river...YES I have swam,

Nothing can stop me now...I will be damn.

Loser, dead beat, crazy, and selfish is what I was,

Pain...well thats what it does.

Man, responsible, smart, warrior, fighter, and creative is what I am,

“Are you happy now?” I replied Yes Ma’am.

Now I stand before you a man of joy,

A man who was “just a little boy”.

I stand before you  in honor of my family's name,

Courageously vowing never to be the same.

Before God takes my last breath and my life’s done,

I hope they looking down saying “Boy we are proud of you son”!