Our War

• Joshua Chieng, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2017

With time comes patience, with hardships comes sacrifice,
with anger comes happiness, and with failure comes knowledge,
These are the 4 rules in life that a person must first acknowledge.
You have the shoes to walk the road to success; they just need to be polished.
One can only taste victory by first understanding failure,
it’ll hurt to try and fail, its indeed a massive wager.
Don’t waste time complaining and making up excuses,
all that will prove is that you gave up and decided to be useless.
To feel anger and disappointment isn’t a punishment, it is a gift,
you’ll feel trapped and lonely as if you were stuck in a mist.
Think through the problem and make yourself a solution,
you will gain knowledge and wisdom, it’ll be your path to evolution.
As humans we are built to feel sadness and pain,
it’s a sick twist in life but it isn’t our loss its actually our own gain.
Don’t ever give up, fight till the end, till you can’t move no more,
that’s how we beat our suffering and this is how we win our war.