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