Heart pumps

Love emanates

Pain radiates

all 'just' words

until brought to life 

  by experiences of life itself.

                         Here I'll Stand.

Watching

Waiting.

Breathing, at least trying to.

Panic, grippong my stance,

reaching through the cracks.

Cementing them closed.

Nothing in 

Nothing out.

              Here I'll Stand.

Ordeals they can

      Harden.

Pain, it will

      Crack.

Nothingness, you no longer

       Feel.

Hope,

a flame in the 

       Darkness.

                 Here I'll Stand.

Completion.

Gratitude,

A prayer.

Surviving

Living, 

Breathing with relieved lungs.

Can't get out,

Don't know how. 

Joy overwhelms.

                     HERE I'LL STAND.