POEM: BELIEVING IN YOURSELF

Freedom From the Cage

Don’t let anything or anyone hold you back from your purpose.

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If I got my life straightened out, would you love me more or less?
Would you wonder or look at me the same?
Are you holding me back while I lose instead of prospering?
Is your belief in me only with conditions, or can I fail and still begin again?

Do I stay, or do I walk away? How far would I have to go?
I see my path ahead; you say you’ll travel too but sit down far too long.
If I don’t go now, I don’t know if I’ll find myself again.
My conditions never end, so I’ll find my way out and on that road ahead.

I hold everything I want to be inside me, and the dream is just the same.
I won’t learn to live without it. It beats my heart through pain.
My doubt and second-guesses shed from my skin forevermore.
No more glancing backward as this rupture brings me freedom from the cage.

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