FEAR NOT THE FEAR...

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Being afraid does not necessarily make

You’re a coward;

Being not afraid to right a wrong often

is the cause of that.

And looking behind does not keep you

from going forward;

This is all too often cause by a fearless

apathy setback.

Courage comes bearing awareness

of who and what you are doing;

Courage brings a unique ruthlessness

that keeps focus on where you’re going.

The uniqueness of courage is that often

it is the product of the viciousness of fear;

Fear that no amount of treachery can ever soften

nor cause one to lose that spirit power to persevere.

Imagine the power of courage fueled by supreme love;

challenging fear and its psychological conundrum.

Remember the lesson on love and fear sent from above;

enabling one to be released from apathy’s asylum.

Fear not the present pandemic dilemmas now before us;

rather, fear us not being ready and prepared in the fight.

There’s nothing worst then having won liberties going to rust;

let us courageously move onward doing what we know is right.

No, let us only fear turning around and going back to those days

when we were wrenched and chain like animals in a circus cage.

Let us only fear disappointing ancestors who were once slaves

but with less did so much—leaving us—little to do in this age.  

Remember, we are chosen to walk in the foot-steps left

on life’s waters;

Sailing to Noah shores lead by that dove above pointing

with His beak.

Remember the lesson taught by our ancestral mothers

and fathers;

We are children of love and where love abides, fear will always

be weak.

Let’s forever be mindful of the words of MLK who walked waters

of fear…

In our life time let us “…constantly build dykes of courage to hold

back fear[now here]…”

Indeed, let us ever be mindful that “…courage breeds creative

self-affirmation…

Cowardice [always] produces [bewildered weakening] destructive

self-abnegation.”