Climbing
Ever Upwards
Fingers are sore
Legs growing tired
Working all the time
Poverty's weighing me down
So Hungry! Not enough to eat.
School, classes, working three jobs.
Genetics degree is so very, very far away!
But I have only to look down to spur me higher.
Pain!
Welfare!
Depression!
Physical abuse!
And Steve's crooked smile
Laughing at me.
"You can't do anything!"
"She's an unfit mother!"
"I'm her father!"
"She's mine!"
"Mine!"
Inspiration.
A dream to fight for!
Careful planning down to
The last calorie!
Grants
Applications
Lots of Paperwork
Filled out in triplicate
So many expensive books bought
Squinting at the tiny print
Working later every night
Sometimes never sleeping
But always dreaming of
My name on a door!
My own desk.
Admiration.
Degrees.
Fame!
And
Of course,
Success!
It will come
Because I will
Work hard for it!
And I will get her back
Because a doctorate outweighs
A loud mouth and a beer belly everytime!
Iron resolve reaches out and seizes another handhold
In the mountain of success, whose winds are called Adversity
And Doubt, and Distraction.
None of which bother me
In the least.
Not at
All.
I will win
I will conquer
Because I have
Someone who needs me
And that is all the inspiration
I need.
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