When it happens for legitimate, valid reasons,
defiance is a deliberate positive attitude,
an existential tool that helps us
challenge and confront
any kind of hardship.
It’s such an indomitable force
that regardless of life’s obstacles,
unbearable circumstances,
material or emotional shortcomings,
even profound pain and sorrow,
once experienced and unleashed,
through it,
neither our resilience,
nor our will or our desire to live,
much less our fighting spirit,
can ever be bent or tamed.
When we resist,
in defense of freedom, dignity and justice,
for the sake of the truth,
When we oppose
oppression, persecution and tyranny,
When we antagonize
bigotry, hate and discrimination,
When we stand immutable
behind virtue, values and principle,
Defiance becomes intrinsically
