Stronger And Rarer

To those who 'pine gentle is weak -
may I remind
roughness may be weakness,
often a cloak,
sometimes armor for body and soul.

Does toughness dwell
at the surface?
Is it always a shell?
Or is it hard to tell for certain
just as it is unwise
to generalize such matters?

The gentle instead
don no metal,
in fact are barer.
Courageous I'd say,
stronger and rarer.


Stronger And Rarer
~ NoxAlio ~