Battered Soul

Is a wake-up call

Do you ever feel that you've been kicked in the gut and that your situation is simply hopeless and that life is no longer worth living?

So no matter how bad things may seem to be or whatever injustice life throws at you, there still is hope in effect, it's a call to arms.

You need to battle within yourself and to rise above any given adversary

There's an old cliche that says If you can't beat them then join them.

Frank's answer to that one is If you don't wish to join them then beat them