Thyself
Dave Oakes
To know yourself is a wonderful thing
You find fear and pleasure and passion
Exploring yourself to the outer limits
Is an adventure that’s fun to fashion
You can never reach your true potential
Without taking a chance of failure
To find happiness you must know sorrow
You must doubt before you are sure
To find the full heights of ecstasy
You must visit the pits of despair
And to know how lonely life can be
You must also know how to care
For every thing in life that is good
Of which you want your piece
You must risk an equal amount
Which you may or may not receive
So to conclude my rambling verse
And sum up all my prose
You have got to fall down the hill
To see how high you rose