My first blogged poem - The Leap of faith

I generally do not publish my poems and short stories....I deem them too personal..... but have changed my mind about this one.... let me know how it has turned out.....

The Leap of faith

I hold my breath at the steep drop,

The sheer cliff plunges scarily;

Darker than all the pains of the way up,

The fear of the leap stares at me.

Knowing not the perils of the way ahead,

the exhuberance of ambition had gushed and frothed;

Now, with milestones won and millstones worn,

Ambition and sacrifice is betrothed.

And for all the blood and tears spilt,

and the sacrifices made in conquering the hill;

Time has come to abandon fear and guilt,

And leap as one knows one will.

The leap - oh so difficult to leap,

Not knowing where one lands;

Temptation surges in tired veins to keep,

the safety of the ground on which one stands.

But leap I will, leap I must,

The leap, one knows, is destiny;

And whether I fly or fall and turn to dust.

The leap shall set me free.