I Can

Let me hop and skip and jump

Let the child within be found

For so long I could barely feel

Life went on   

But was it real 

I was too afraid    

Too afraid to move

I tried to dance the dance

But I was forever outside the groove

I hear the other voices

Voices booming through my world

I want to yell 

I want to shout 

I open my mouth 

Echoes of terror spew out

I sit alone , alone in the dark

If I had passed l would have left not a mark

So long without self

So long without being

Lost and condemned I would have never been seen

But then came a whisper , the shadow of a door

Opened but a crack , a crack no more

Beyond the crack is there a light to be seen

The fear is so great but courage be felt

This light but a flicker touched my soul

And now I know some how within there is a chance - 

a chance so fine 

A chance for me 

A chance that is mine for the being to open as I become me 

The battle be hard but there is a chance to be.