Chin Up

I keep my chin up 

Making the food come to me 

Elbows off the table

Working my way from the outside in 

I keep my chin up

Being slow to anger 

Hiding my sleeves

Running my race

I keep my chin up

Covering myself in glacier water 

It chilled my body 

But not my soul 

Red blood runs within me

As I claw through a sea of black-blue

Even crabs in a platinum barrel

Still yearn to feel the sun

Fate gave me intuition over trust

Guts over guarantee 

Mojo in one hand 

An ace in another

I keep my chin up

Walking with pride

Adorned in hardened steel 

I sprint to the mountaintop