Determined Endurance Poem by Carolyn Brunelle

It's a damn hard fight
from beginning to end.
Why would any of us
want to continue
blindly
stumbling,
bumbling
with no clue
what it's all about?

But we do

each and every day.
Determination gets it together,
holds on to it,
makes it through;
finds another way
to make do.

Why

hang in and hang on;
search for something inside
to keep going,
when all the while
we're alone
in the dark
praying to a God
we hope like hell is there;
and the road
really does
lead

.... somewhere.