What is will?
It's what bargains with pain - a smaller hurt now for a larger strength later?
Is it the grip that keeps holding when the rope burns?
Does it return after failure, quieter but firmer?
Is it whatever keeps a student in the room after the bell and after the doubt?
Is it made in victories, or hammered into shape by every attempt that almost broke you?
Does it give the blade to patience before giving it to the fight itself?
Is it what turns fear from a wall into a railing you use to climb?
Is it choosing the hard path when the easy one is taken by many?
When anger would be easy, is it choosing patience?
Is it waking before sunrise (and before chickens) because the work needs doing?
Is Will… The fruit of determination?
Is it what refuses the easy win that would cost the future?
Does it lay a brick today that tomorrow you can stand on?
After all… Is it what names the ember after the fire - and calls it strength inside gilded ashes?