Sorrowful Twist

When I expect joy but find only pain; when I look for adventure but find only a prison; when I reach out for friendship but grasp only air and the world outside is darker than the light inside my heart - I should despair... but instead I am defiant. What I find is not sorrow, but a fire within me that cannot be extinguished and I would likely not have known it so well nor felt it so keenly without the cold, empty darkness that surrounds it. And so I bow my head to that which tries to break me. Not in defeat...

But in gratitude.