Defiance

The war you must win

The loudest doubter lives within,
A voice that whispers you can’t win,
That builds its walls from fear and doubt,
That finds a hundred reasons out.

It speaks in echoes of the past,
In failures felt, in shadows cast,
In comfort zones that feel like home,
In every reason not to roam.

But somewhere deeper, fiercer still,
There burns a small defiant will,
A spark that dares to disagree,
That says I’ll prove what I can be.

To reach the summit, to scale the height,
You must wage war with your own might,
Must face the mirror’s unbending gaze,
And choose the harder of two ways.

Defiance isn’t outward noise,
It’s standing firm despite the voice,
It’s moving forward, step by step,
When everything says give up, accept.

The enemy is not the climb,
Not circumstance, or lack of time,
It’s that familiar, fearful plea,
That begs you to stop being free.

So defy the doubter, break the chain,
Push through the comfort, past the pain,
For every goal worth reaching for,
Demands you wage this inner war.

And when at last you touch the sky,
You’ll know the truth: the greatest “I,”
You ever conquered, ever faced,
Was you… the one you had to displace.

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