Survive

When you said life was hard

I believed you but I also did not:

I thought it was hard now

Not foreseeing what would come.

When you said to ask for help

I said I would never need it.

Soon I would fall at your feet

Begging for your mercy.

Now I know why you stayed near

And why you encouraged me:

You were preparing me

You knew surviving isn't easy.

But I did and even thrived

With you by my side.