Metabolize

Glass shatters when the floor begins to shake.

The fragile count the pieces in the dust.

They build a wall around the things that break,

And pray the iron doesn't turn to rust.

But lay the barbell heavy on the spine,

And feel the fiber tearing in the deep.

Throw me in the forge and watch the temper hold!

I am not built to shield against the cold!

The fragile crumble, the resilient stay,

But I adapt and take the world away!

Every loss a weight upon the bar,

Every shock revealing who we are.

The sharp betrayal and the sudden blow

Are nothing more than fuel inside the grate.

Metabolize the venom as we go,

And turn the poison into kinetic state.

No tragic weight attached to chaos now,

Just mechanical resistance in the air.

Throw me in the forge and watch the temper hold!

I am not built to shield against the cold!

The fragile crumble, the resilient stay,

But I adapt and take the world away!

Every loss a weight upon the bar,

Every shock revealing who we are.

Surviving isn't victory—it's staying the same.

Protection is a prison built by fear of the flame.

Break the fiber down to build it dense!

Turn the disruption into our defense!

Disruption is the lesson!

Volatility the cure!

The harder that you crush it,

The stronger it endures!

Throw me in the forge and watch the temper hold!

I am not built to shield against the cold!

The fragile crumble, the resilient stay,

But I adapt and take the world away!

Every loss a weight upon the bar,

Every shock revealing who we are.