Give Yourself Another Chance
Give yourself another chance, Go out into the night and dance Even if you fell to the floor At every step before, pick it up And try again.
All alone with your sharpened thoughts as Arrows slung at your soft heart.
Give yourself another chance, Show up at the door without Your keys, without your wallet, Missing teeth and having problems, Enter this life without Rehearsal, enter this life Without referrals. No application needed, Show up at my door and let’s dance.
Give yourself another chance, Take yourself to class and Let yourself retake that test, Let yourself remake that mess, Let yourself remaster the words You rejected in yourself.
You are weak knee-ed And soft tongued And your head is so full To bursting with busy thoughts That give you no space to be yourself, But I’ll tell you here and now:
Give yourself another chance. You’ll find that you can enter Rooms without preamble, Enter conversations without A script to follow and Lead into this life just as well with Fumbling hands and mistaken steps.
Life is not a practice in perfection, You are but a work in progress.
