Lift Yourself Up
A Poem about how training for weightlifting in the Olympic Games
changed my life for the better and pushed me away from being
depressed and suicidal.
I sat in a dark whole of misery,
Lifted up by an opportunity,
Finding out I'm good for something,
And not just a blob of nothing,
Weightlifting is the chance I have taken,
To show myself that I can put faith in,
Myself and the power that I hold,
That I can be strong instead of crippled,
Weightlifting has shown me how to survive,
And pick myself out of a hole where I was left to die.
By: David Jorge
This poem is about:
Me