To Dare

To Dare

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach for another is to risk involvement.

To expose your ideas, your dreams

Before the crowd is to risk their loss

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To believe is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard

Is to risk nothing, do nothing.

You may avoid suffering and sorrow,

But could you - learn, feel, change,

Grow - love, live.

                                                                 Chained by attitude      

We become slaves

And forfeit our freedom.

Only people who risk are free