Do Not Fear!

Friend, despair not your heart...
You ask:  Who are we to grasp lightly
Our thoughts, fears, scars, and smart...
Your usual self pricked and unmoved,
Love of your life, children secured.

They say: Have no fear for fear's sake,
Judgement shown, an empty lake,
False assumptions...quite untrue .
merely a scatter of clouds in the blue.
Sadness does abound, like pain,
But to all what is life but to gain?

I dress for success and into the world I go!
Smiling, confident, nobility sent out,
Only to rout,
my fears and tears.
Only to meet
Disapointment and Discouragement
Life's twins, our constant companions.

Oh tell me---know your own spirit
that spirit not wholly firm or evil,
Innocent and unusual...a particular judge of life.

But when comes the day ?
That one day of many full of trial and strife.
Yourself, without despair,
Flees and run without fear,
But surely full of ambition,
Not missing out on life's big prizes...

Copyright © 2008 Myles Saulibio