Go for it

I never felt I could

Summon up my will

And say

This is what I want

And feel I had the right

To go for it

I learned from a younger age

That all the power lay outside of me

And that I had to dance so hard

To be noticed or to make you stay

But now I am realising

That for so long I have had the truth all upside down

Heart is fooled by head

And my heart is all in a mess

In a body

That felt it had no right to happiness

How can it be

That I locked this longing of mine to be free

So deeply inside of me

That I had to swallow down such lies and pain

It has taken me so long

To feel I had the right

To go for anything

So that now as opportunity comes

I feel the fear

Do I have the right to be fully alive

To know I have the right to be happy

And to go for what it is

I truly want?