I Train

Chalk flies,
Another rep dies,
Breath deep,
Another rep I seek.
Body on fire,
Driven by primal desire,
Sweat drops like a shower,
Unable to quench my thirst for power.
Another rep,
Another step,
On this never ending journey,
The bite of the steel,
Its crushing weight I feel.
Sister steel, brother Iron,
I will not release you till all is gone.
Till my energy is spent,
Till every fiber is to my will bent,
The fibers of my being woven,
Into the sterner stuff of greater men.
It is not just the body I train,
For I seek not the vain,
But attainment in the entire being,
That is why I come to the alter of pain,
And why my blood the bar doth stain.