To walk the thousand miles for rest

Addicted,
to the path I walk~
Grasped on hope alone
the burning glimpse
of a future salvaged from the
despair of denial.
~
As every failure
starves me of success
and every desperation
or hunger in vain
leads me to run harder this time round.
~
They all say-
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Yet what if
just what if
perhaps if...
What threatens to kill you makes you fight harder.
~+~
So suck it in
and yield forth yet more.
For success awaits not
who awaits success.
Through pain one learns freedom.
Through innocence brews pain.
~+~
so~Let every pain boil the adrenaline rush
as sweet victory is snatched.
And savor the bliss of the wind sweep by
beneath your feet;
unable to knock you down
suppressed by superiority...