To know adversity is to know me,
For it is the underlying pain inside of me.
Each day brings forth something new.
Its as if adversity has nothing to do.
Once I complete the running course,
Adversity comes along with a stronger and harder force.
It tries with all its power to capsize my life’s boat,
Not knowing that on my boat I was given a float.
Adversity tries to send the winds to make me alarm,
But adversity forgets that I was given the power to calm the storm.
Because of adversity, pain has become a friend of mine.
Pain can no longer sneak up on me because I’m no longer blind.
Adversity brings pain; pain produces life’s tests; tests give us a testimony.
I am stronger because of tests and able to withstand the trials of adversity.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem