Hard core

There's no goodness
without evil.
No happiness
without suffering.

We wouldn't know love
if there wasn't hatred.
We need to fight death
to feel alive.

We form ourselves
by squeezing through
fleeting openings
in the mass of resistance.

We would never figure out
that love is the only thing worth it,
without facing a current
of selfishness, betrayal
and disappointment,
eroding everything
that is not the hardest
and most durable of all,
right in the core of us.