The great storm came that dark night
A giant specter enveloping the sky.
I stared emptily, no fear or anguish
The pain, however, made me cry.

Today, as the storm is well past me,
As my ship sails at melancholy pace,
I look back at the lessons I learnt
At what I lost, what ahead I take.

The storm robbed me of my heart
Of my soul the essence it stole.
The storm gave me a steely resolve
It set me on an irreversible goal.

The storm stripped me naked.
My dignity, my shelter it took away.
The storm freed me from fear
With me this fearlessness shall stay.

My words to me now seem hollow,
Without love, they have no rhyme.
But the hope and the swagger is back,
And with it, I move ahead onward.