You might be weak, You might be strong

 You might be weak; You might be strong

-Ishana Ghosh

Yes, it is possible

that you're weak at heart.

No, it is not impossible

that your strength and your cavalry

are the twin armours of a facade.

You could be just a clumsy

bundle of nerves, who's 

always making a mess,

and it could be that you're not

the person, you so wanted to be.

Yes. That it could be,

even if others believe,

or have been made to believe

that strong is what you are,

brave is what you are; and

speaking of all that trust placed

on you, they think

worthy is what you are.

You've hidden it so well,

the fragility and the incompatibility,

and that too, for so long,

that even you let it slip through

your mind, that this

is not who you really are;

this person they know 

is an impostor, who hides behind

white angel wings, with

deception as the only weapon in hand.

Rather, the only shield.

I'm not surprised at all,

as a witness to your confusion

as to who you should be now

and whether you can really be,

who you think you should be,

or more importantly, 

you're confused as to who

and what defines your reality.

You're weak you say.

You don't deserve to be trusted, you say.

You've lost your sanity, you say.

So I say, forget it all.

You might be weak, you might be strong,

you don't have to overthink it all.

Think it through, one step at a time.

Make mistakes, you'll learn

that nothing ever matches

the 'true' definition of right.

So, if you don't know yourself,

that's totally fine;

after all, you still have 

your entire lifetime.

But it is also true

that you can never really be happy

when that is what you're after.

Turning away from it all, won't help.

Only when you care and you pay attention

to whatever's happening around

the little space that you occupy,

can real happiness be found,

even if it's temporary, even if

the byproducts of it,

are pain and misery.

It is also very true,

and even if you must've realised

already, let me write it for you,

once again; it is true that

strength is not child's play,

that you can't just pretend to be strong,

if you are not strong already.

Strength is what you have,

if you have the courage to act strong

in front of the others,

at hard times like this.

So think twice before going to overthink

about what you did the other day,

and how weak it made you seem.

You're standing here today,

and that's proof enough

that you can do what you want to do,

only if you believe in you,

and that is something,

I trust, you can very well learn to do.

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