on optimism

Every cowardly chain that shackles my body
will melt at the optimism
shot through my eyes

Every single layer of contradiction
like a practical joke
in my mind-set
will be corrected
by faith in the human hand and heart

we will persevere, we will overcome
we will overshadow fear
until it transforms into beauty
begging for our approval
until it makes us laugh
and we build a friendship
with the part of us
we never wished to face

for the enemy was in our minds
in our believing that we could not
when we always, always could