FORGED IN FIRE

I didn’t jump into life, I was pushed

I didn’t fight to stay for the hope of a better fate

Only to have everything taken away that I ever wanted

Young and scared, too proud to crawl

I lay awake at night trying to find an escape

To a place where I didn't have to bleed

A place where I could breathe without fear

Fear of "will this be my last breath"?

Out of the frying pan into the fire over and over being burned

Till the ashes of my charred life begin to fall from me

Revealing a new life, a new chance

Forged in fire I emerge, I stand a refined woman