Fearlessness

Fear

I have visited fear hundreds of times

seen its ugly face and heard it urging me to disappear

to shrink,

become nothing

fear loves you bowing to it

freezing, trembling, paralyzed as it slithers near

disappear, disappear, disappear

But like child's play

the game begins to lose hold the more it happens

you question its danger

will it injure me?

will it kill?

If I'm struck, will it hurt?

You experience that even in the darkest of darks good things arise

you learn

you grow

....and then suddenly

the fear, the paralysis, the trembling fades away

fear's repeated abuse of its own power

has taught you

that the result of all this pain

may not be a bad thing

in fact,

in may be great, good, just the same as before.

Then comes fearlessness.

Fearlessness is a result of hours of pain

and experience with

fear itself.

Fearlessness is the gift we get

from years of fear education

I have seen the gifts of misfortune and

know and trust that all will be just fine

for even the most unwanted of trategies bears fruit

to hope, beauty and growth

In all its ugliness, life is beautiful.....

Life turns all this ugliness into gold

if

if

if you trust the cycle of human growth and potential

I direct my words, actions and activities to proceed

only guided by my own inner compass.

Come at me with any costume, any form,

control

humiliation,

disrespect,

maliciousness,

it will not be the first time,

or the last ugliness that has come knocking

the door is unlocked and wide open