Original Poem -- Processing Fear
Life without certainty should feel freeing,
but I am scared.
Emotions with honesty should feel freeing,
but I am scared.
Fear without purpose is delusion.
Fear with purpose is uncomfortable,
creating ambition,
confronting challenge.
To frame experience and emotion with conscientiousness
is to build real security:
enough freedom to live,
enough structure to remain ambitious.
Perhaps fear does not disappear.
When it remains,
refine it into awareness,
discipline it with intention,
and find freedom within.
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Pure poetry! Especially when juxtaposed with the travel narrative. The strength you build here is epic!
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ReplyDeleteThis is a powerful poem describing your own feelings of uncertainty, goals and future with hope, fears and challenges.
Thanks very much for sharing.
Love,
GrandpaBob