Sonnet: If I Risk Nothing At All

If I risk nothing in life or love, I indeed risk it all For I only get stronger when I learn to take many falls The iron horse of Greece, as a redwood so tall Into the bolstered gates of Troy's impenetrable walls The shattered bones, the great grazes of that mighty leap Are the steppingstones to achieve that impossible so-called feat The feat to become more than the nobles thought I'd become If I played my hand safe…safe with a nought outcome I lost it all many times…and many more still will I lose it again But never will that ever stop me…for no risk at all is the greatest pain The blows life belligerently throws, will hit me hard and without cease I'll risk it bold…I will never fold for the length of my lifelong lease To risk nothing in life is the greatest risk you could ever make For the greatest triumphs exist, in the boldest chances you take!