Fear

Everything is there to be faced

Fear comes wave by wave as
your terrorized imagination threatens
to run berserk.
Will you muster sufficient faith to be able to restrain it,
having already prayed to a selection of known Gods?

***

By now do you realise how little control
you have over things that really matter?
Flailing, kicking and twisting in the water, remembering when they taught you
on your only day at swim class,
“Don’t fight it, just let the water carry you.”


No! You scream and kick harder.
Deep down a voice says
Shut up and listen to me!
But you don’t.
It gets to a point
a dark, watery point when
your refusal leads you to succumb.
Your world goes black.
The kicking stops as does the flailing.
You prepare for the end by accepting your fate and
resuming your breathing
in the calmest way possible
You let go.

***

You let go and in your head
the silenced voice stirs again, sensing
that all the monsters and demons are no longer
circling inside the cage.
They’re safely outside now.
The voice gathers confidence and says to you reasonably,
Be calm and
against your worse judgement, you listen
and are released.
You scarcely believe it as
you float upwards.
From the watery depths towards the lone source of light.
It’s the sun again
Smudged underwater just as it was above.

All the monsters and demons are no longer circling the cage. They’re safely outside now.

You breach the ocean’s surface to see fear floating around you
carried on swaying infant waves
broken into hundreds of non-threatening pieces.
Up close, no longer as intimidating
for when you made ready to receive
fear’s worst blow
Your worst imaginings crawled out of your head
and their true size and shape became revealed.
Having prepared to greet death
you were released and come truly alive.

Isn’t fear like a conquered sea?
Even as it recedes behind a smudged sun
leaving echoes in your mind.

photo from unsplash.com by Brian Minear

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