Beauty From Pain

You’ll never know until you try
’Cause you can’t laugh until you cry
You can’t dance before you crawl
Or know forgiveness without a brawl
I’d want love that knew deep pain
Because it’d see what it could gain
It would humbly go through life
Aware of all incoming strife
Yet still so eager just to live
Just to breathe, to take and give

My life’s revolved ‘round things to fear
We’ve been taught to run from tears
Yet how do flowers come to bloom?
Sun shines death without the gloom
Life is lost if lost is pain
We’d be shriveled without the rain
Plants would wither while trees would wane

Let's both try to lose the game.