the hobble of self-doubt
stasis needs an impulse to move,
a quickening of the static into melody,
an awakening,
as if the inanimate becomes imbued with spirit,
once started,
movement needs guidance as to where to go
and how to get there,
too much self-doubt and stasis rules,
too much willfulness and arrogance loses the way,
I work with middle schoolers
who want to jump,
despite the weights adolescence straps to them,
who want to risk a leap,
despite the fears that hobble them,
who know that possibility can become probability,
that probability can become reality,
but they fear they cannot embrace such success,
no matter how much they want it, need it, even deserve it,
so they doubt self,
so they fear that failure is their companion,
they fear that confidence is arrogance,
and that there is no way their world is really theirs,
I joy whenever they find the wherewithal and the way
to release the powers with which they were born.
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