You Are a Survivor

You are the most beautiful line from your favorite book
You are the prettiest characteristics of your favorite season
Colorful and clear as autumn
Crisp and bright like the winter
Hopeful and fresh as spring
Sunny and free like summer

You are not what has been taken away from you
You are what you give to everyone else
You are not a long night of crying
You are your biggest smile and your hardest laugh
You may be in pieces, but you are still a whole

You are not your treatments or your medication
You are not a test score or a GPA
You are not a number on a scale
You are not a measurement at all
You are not even a degree or a medal
You are effort and will

And damn it, you are what you eat because food is great and so are you

You are not your scars
You are your ability to heal.
You are not only where you have been, but you are also places you intend to go

You have cancer
You are not cancer
You have an eating disorder
You are not an eating disorder
You have depression
You are not depression
You have an addiction
You are not the drug
As long as you have the will to fight
You are a survivor