Don't put me in your box.  
I need to explore.

Don't assign a shape to me.  
I bet mine has never been drawn.

Save your doubts of me.  
I've spent enough of my own.

You hide from failure and from success,
Keen on risking nothing.

Know that fear won't rest until a nest
It's made inside your heart.

Don't put me in your box of inflexibility,
Where dreams behave, ideas refrain,
And the only survivor is predictability.

I must go.  
You must let me go.  

In fact, don't even show me your box.  
I'll pretend it was never there.

 

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© Candice Reineke 2014