A Story

This has been around forever.
Don't know where it came from
or who said it.

Behind every strong person

is a story

that gave them no choice.

We each have a story.

Each unfathomable

to the person who's within it;

and yet ...

we find a way,

to claw, to dig, to fight,

to cling to a passion

that provides a sliver of hope.

And the story continues ...