The Risk Poem

• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
• To cry is to risk appearing sentimental and soft,
• To reach out to another is to risk involvement,
• To show your feelings is to risk exposing your inherent self,
• To place your ideas, your dreams, your desires before people is to risk their loss,
• To love is to risk not being loved in return,
• To show strength is to risk showing weakness,
• To do is to risk failure.
• The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing,
• The person who risks nothing, gets nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
• He may avoid suffering, pain, sorrow, but he does not live, he does not love,
• He has sold, forfeited freedom, integrity,
• He is a slave, chained by safety, locked away by fear.
• Because, only a person who is willing to risk not knowing the result is free.

Anonymous