When you look at me, what do you see?

Woman, worker, wife, lover, mother, daughter

Content to live in the every day 9 to 5-ness of it all

What if I said that i want more?

Are you gonna try to keep me in a box

With your favorite slippers and your cozy blanket?

What is this need you have to clip my wings?

To keep me underfoot; unable to fly?

Are you afraid that I might outshine your mediocrity?

Don’t get me wrong, I love my home and my family

But I’m so much more than you’re

Willing or able to see

I want to be and do everything

That God has purposed for me

Live life without limits – and more abundantly

See everything there is to see

Do you even want to know my hopes and dreams?

If I  share them with you

Will they be dashed on the rocks

Where my pride and self-esteem used to be?

I’ve managed to collect the pieces of me

You tried to scatter before

I’ve got a new and beautiful pair of wings

And I’m ready to fly. No – ready to soar!