written by Marini Barika Facey
Since your sly predator despair encircles you, licks its mouth of intimidation, and lingers in a taunting pack as if it has already won, use that to your advantage!
Because you were caught off guard,
your senses are heightened to all surroundings!
You are already bent down low to the ground, marks and wounds in your neck, and you claw the earth because of your last encounter with the pack...
Quietly, unassumingly move in for the kill like seven lionesses! You are fueled by rage and will no longer be fooled!
Oh resilient prey, like a ravenous, starving beast, feed on your predator despair; sink in your teeth, while it still breathes!
Doubt cackles like a hyena; violently rip it to shreds! Fiercely dig your claws into worthlessness!
Crack open rejection's chest! Wildly tear out betrayal's heart and suck depression dry! Ferociously devour fear to the bone, leave none of it behind!
Now lift up your eyes that burn as severely as the Summer sun in the sky!
Your powerful outcries echo through the mountains as you drag the bones of your soul's enemies as remembrance stones...
...hope sparks and ignites your empty soul with passion; embers fall on your wounded heart. Now fire rages within you!
You are keen, everything heightened and serene, because you are acutely aware of your surroundings!
You run swiftly...
...steadily like seven proud lions now!
You are fearless because hope, like scars and embers, make you remember how powerfully resilient and wildly courageous you really are!
You smile at your future,
laugh with fire in your eyes,
soul ablaze!"