Sonnet: If I Risk Nothing At All Poem by Allen Steble The Philosophical Poet

If I risk nothing in life or love, I indeed risk it all
For I only get stronger when I learn to take many falls
The iron horse of Greece, as a redwood so tall
Into the bolstered gates of Troy's impenetrable walls

The shattered bones, the great grazes of that mighty leap
Are the steppingstones to achieve that impossible so-called feat
The feat to become more than the nobles thought I'd become
If I played my hand safe…safe with a nought outcome

I lost it all many times…and many more still will I lose it again
But never will that ever stop me…for no risk at all is the greatest pain
The blows life belligerently throws, will hit me hard and without cease
I'll risk it bold…I will never fold for the length of my lifelong lease

To risk nothing in life is the greatest risk you could ever make
For the greatest triumphs exist, in the boldest chances you take!