When they ask me,
"Can you do this or that?
or such 'n such?"
Yes has become my default response,
even when the task
is untried and foreign. 

I learn as I go.

Without risk, I stay right here.

And if I fail,
then,
at the very least,
I find myself somewhere new.

And I am someone new.

Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.