Will You Step on to the Stage of Life?

We all hit a point where we look back on the roads we travelled and see the culmination of footsteps that have come to constitute our lives. But if you can even briefly find the strength to step back and ask, what is there to be gained? You see that not going is the real danger. So will you stand your ground as the curtain open, read your poems to a foreign audience? Will you share your voice, even though it trembles? Because if you do, you're giving yourself permission to truly live, to feel.