the broken promise of youth is it's invincibility; stolen from us by the first adult who teaches us the valuable lesson about consequences in an effort to save us future pain; clipping the wings of our fragile courage - a voice haunts out thoughts as we mull our futures, our hopes and dreams; failing to launch - we dare not out of fear - in the direction of who we might become - there must come a day when the call of our future will be too loud; when we will have learned to rise about the voices of doubt - our collection of fears - to fulfill the promise of our youth, to become who we are called to be.
