How Strong Are Your Interests? Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Bold must be the steps,
To remove one from doubts...
About their own interests kept.
And to not let regrets to fret.
Or prevent with a fearing,
An unknown one has yet to have met.

A moving forward takes faith.
With testing obstacles to overcome.
On a daily basis to defeat.
And that can not be done,
If one believes the day will come...
Opportunities to pick from,
Will be delivered.

Dreams and wishes,
With them wanted to come true...
Takes mistakes to make.
Tears to cry.
Disappointments to face.
And sometimes witnessing,
Some relationships to split...
To see fade away to heal from this.

A sacrificing one finds is not kind at all.
Especially when one is down,
Trying to get up again from a painful fall.
Sacrificing may take one to unfamiliar places.
To make it known and shown to others unaware,
Just what those interests are one keeps...
With faith maintained and strong belief.

'But...
Suppose I go somewhere and know no one there? '

~How strong are your interests?
Strong enough to accept rejection?
Strong enough to stay determine to get,
What it is you want and wish.
Or are you like the others,
To claim faith only 'if'...
You are not made to prove it felt to exist.
Which is it?
Your interests or insecurities,
You would like and prefer to be accepted? ~

Bold must be the steps,
To remove one from doubts...
About their own interests kept.
And to not let regrets to fret.
Or prevent with a fearing,
An unknown one has yet to have met.

'But...
I am not like you.'

~True.
And our interests are different too.
Would my expressing to you regret,
Make you feel better?
Or should I show I am empathetic?
Either way...
Whose interests would receive to get,
The benefit? ~