UTMB

You're one tough son of a bitch they tell me
as I walk out of the wilderness
You don't know half of it, I say.

Tough is giving birth to an ungrateful shit like me
Tough is losing your father at twelve
or your eyesight at thirty
Tough is watching your child die in your arms
or choosing not to have that child

Tough is a terminal diagnosis
or living with chronic pain
It is being violated and abused
by someone you loved
And tough is around the corner, always
just a coin flip away

All I did was travel by foot
that's what my feet are for

You don't know tough,
I tell them

and nor do I.