A Leap of Faith by Virginia Hainsworth

The best you can achieve

just takes a leap of faith.

The job application,

a love letter,

quitting a habit,

a new business venture,

taking your leave

of a person or place.

It just takes a leap of faith.

And yet that leap is chained,

glued, riveted to the past.

Such a simple thing.

A leap of faith.

But what about the gap? The crevasse?

What if you fall?

What if anyone is watching?

Judging? Laughing?

What if you take the leap and don’t land where you want?

For you might not.

What if you can’t go back?

For you never can.

What if this?

What if that?

And then?

And then what?

What unimagined joys, inventions, acts of heroism are lost

because someone like you didn’t take a leap of faith?

Leap.

And the net will appear.

Leap.  It’s just a step.

Take that step.

Have faith.

Leap.

Now.