You Will Live

You will live,
commonly cornered man of youth,
high of mind and short of tooth,
on this quiet quest for truth;
you will live.

You will rise,
though the heart be flung to wind,
though your righteousness has sinned,
while worlds away from next of kin;
you will rise.

You will live,
with head swallowed by a flood,
in melancholy flesh and blood.
Raise your members from the mud
and live.
You will live.