Self-Confidence
There's a pain you have created in me, 
it's a pain that most cannot see.
The pain is here, and will always be,
the pain I feel, I wish would flee.
There's a fear you have created in me, 
a fear I know you cannot see,
this fear will live inside of me,
until the day you set it free.
There's a voice crying out inside of me,
a voice that begs you to look and see,
until you speak your words to me,
my self-confidence can never be.
                            -Erin Parsons   © 1998