Radiance

 Stand with your head held high;
 even when your knees tremble.
  
 Keep strength within your heart,
 even when you fall apart.
  
 Death is easy.
 What could kill you outright—
 to live through that...is art.
  
 Whatever seeks to finish you
 in agony upon agony,
 look straight into its eyes
 and say with voice like ice,
 'Your time is up.
 Wait for death.'