Don’t hesitate.

You can do this, you’ve done this.
You know the words,
you know the rhythm -
feel it.

Do you feel that?
That’s the sound of a beat,
a heart beat.
You’re living,
you’re reading.
The people are waiting because you
YOU
were picked
chosen
selected
approved to show not what you’re made of,
but what you can make with what you’ve got.
You were given the words,
you’ve made something with them…

Now share them.
Let it go.
BELT IT OUT because,
really,
what more can you do?

Flushing (or blushing)
and stammering,
knees knocking,
isn’t the way to go and you know it.
You know it so well
that the strength with which you know it,
it’s what really scares you.

The wide eyes,
tinted skin,
twisting fingers,
ragged lip –
they are the products of themselves.
One times one is one;
the answer,
quick to the tongue from years of
building the habit.

Break the habit of fear.
Sidestep into the realm of comfort
and performance.

Hello.