Striving

If everything were easy

Nothing would be worth doing

I thought it sounded cheesy

But decided worth pursuing

Took on challenges a many

And trials so many more

Pinched my every penny

Made all my muscles sore

A time of tribulation

To make for better being

A strange sort of evocation

That I was slowly seeing

The times of misery

Undertaken had brought forth

A new means of seeing

The good things for their worth

But was it worth the struggle

To find joy in simpleness?

To try and simply juggle

Between sorrow and bliss?

Of that I am not certain

But I can definitely say

It opened up the curtain

On who I am today.