All Faith And No Leap

I'm all faith and no leap

All bite and no teeth

And as I go to speak

Something silences me

It's a weight, rendering

me incapable of flight

It's a whisper, curling doubt 

in the back of my mind 

It's the hand of a child, begging 
me not to let go

Their eyes are my own, except they 

were afraid to fail

And I'm afraid to be great.