Sunday, December 08, 2024

Don’t Be Afraid

The winds of chance fly swift beyond the clouds

To carry seeds of challenges ahead,

Til buried deep in furrows plainly plowed

They languish in uncertainty and dread.

And every whisper falling on their ear

Lends warning of the dangers yet to come.

Foreboding foils of feckless, freakish fears

Are birth to caution, leaving reason numb.

As aimless arrows all around ascend,

Like willow branches bending without harm,

Fair truth becomes a melancholy friend

To battle with the liars of alarm

Epiphany – at last fair ransom paid –

Speaks softly in my ear, “Don’t be afraid.”

 


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