Questions

• Lauren Wilhelm, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2003

I look in the mirror, what do I see?
A daughter? A sister? A friend?
Am I troubled or am I free?
How will I live till time ends?
Will I be a helper? A giver? A doer?
Will I take for myself what I have not earned?
Can I live for my God that my heart might be truer?
But How can I teach what I have not learned?

Am I to be courageous? Independent? Strong?
Can I fulfill such expectations as these?
Can I walk with You without falling into wrong?
Will I come to You then, fall down on my knees?
Are my efforts futile? In distress? In vain?
Or will they see the love that I see?
Do they see these tears falling like rain?
Will I be able to show them all that is in me?