NaPoWriMo 2010 - 15/30

Training Wheels

Take off those training wheels and let me teach you how to ride
How to ride like a man
I’ll show you how to ride like a man

I will take you on adventures out to sea
Then challenge you to touch the bottom
To discover things more valuable than treasure
I will take you hiking up mountain trails
And leave you gasping with limitations
Then push you over the edge to overcome them
I will squeeze fear out of you like the last dregs
And bring you to the place of surrender and strength
Where weakness is a virtue, and humility is the peak
I will breathe fire into your lungs
And pour water over your head
Air out your bloated thoughts
And plunge your knees into the earth
So that you will never become anything less than what I have planned
So that nothing will deviate from my purposes for you
So that self-denial and righteousness will never be things you deny
So that love will remain as a solid footprint on the sands of your soul

Take off those training wheels and let me teach you how to ride
How to ride like a man
I’ll show you how to ride like Me