going on

found this amidst 8th grade homework assignments.

takes me back.

She goes on

Away.

By the lightless road of despair

She did pass us

Face heavy with worries

And misery.

For she has struggled to get by so much

She went on

Swimming through entire seas

With gloomy waters

And vicious currents threatening

To pull her under.

Yet she goes on.

She has conquered holocausts

Where fire seemed to burn from hell itself

And there existed no water

To extinguish the flames.

She goes on.

Hope remains her guiding light

Through forests of darkness

In her sole presence.

She winds through mazes of lonely caves

Where the only sound heard

Is the echoing of her footsteps.

Dark indeed were the tunnels she traveled

Slippery were the walls she clung to

In pursuit of the lightened cavern of joy.

And those hopes and dreams are timeless,

More so seems the path one must take

The strife one must endure

To reach the light.

And still,

She goes on.