By Sympathi
Date: 23 December 1998

Can I be changed?

All my life I have been afaid to try and fail.
Afraid that I would not have something to offer.
Afraid that what I did have would be refused or 
ridiculed.

Now after a terrifying experience I wonder:
Can I change the way I am?
Can I change the way I feel?
Can I be who I think I am inside?
Or will I lose this second chance the Lord has given me!

Will I look for the love I know can be out there?
Will I stay in my sheltered life?
Will I try to share my heart with others?
Or will I just let it turn cold and die?

Fear of failure is in my life.
It seems to have ruled me forever.
But if I can be the inner me will I changed for the 
better?
I like to think so!

A second chance does not happen often.
And a third is even more rare.
So pray in thanks that I might succeed or fail.
But I pray most that I just have the courage to try!