Fear

FEAR

To everyone who knows me, you know that you inspire me, and when I write, I write with love, knowing you always have my back. Je t’aime profondment, simplement et toute entire.

For such an ageless emotion, 1 word, 1 syllable and 4 characters, it is amazing that an art hasnt been developed to ward off its devastating effects….

Maybe what they should have told us was this:

Fear never composed a symphony or wrote a poem
Fear never walked out of an abusive relationship or
Raised an extraordinary person as a single parent
Fear cried herself to sleep

Fear never stayed long enough to forgive a cheating partner or
Fix a broken marriage
Fear never loved where it hurt or held the hand of a loved one battling an illness
Fear simply walked away

Fear never parted the red sea or built a boat during a drought
Fear never ended an apartheid.
It never abolished a slave trade or won a freedom
Fear crawled up into a hole and died

Fear never married a prostitute that produced the lineage of Jesus
Fear never won anyone’s love or got down on one knee
Fear taunted you with loneliness and told you to settle

Fear never broke a record, won a championship or made history
Fear never got down on two knees and prayed

Courage did that…

in the courage halls of fame
harriet tubman, nelson mandela, Jesus son of God, Moses, Joan of Arc,Martin L King, Sojurner Truth...and the list goes on and on..

INSTEAD

Fear stacked up enough nuclear weapons to destroy a planet over ten times over
Fear raised armies and raged wars
Fear raped babies for a cure to a disease
Fear turned a blind eye to a genocide that killed thousands
Fear inspired racism and encouraged a suicide bomber
Fear saved up a couple of hundred thousand that he was never even buried with

You remember this:

When the final whistle blew and you wished you had played it a little bit bolder and not safer
When you sit in the crowd of a wedding that should have been
Yours because that was your person and YOU were the better bride/groom
When life’s final moment calls and you’re counting regrets and not loving faces
You remember that fear left you where courage would have stayed

Fear tells you you’re not good enough
Fear tells you its too late
Fear tells you he/she is out of your league
Fear tells there is no God let alone one that will always forgive
And you can never disappoint

But ask yourself, how can something that has been timelessly wrong about so many things, suddenly be right about you??
You are right where you’d be had u tried and failed

in the fear halls of fame Hitler, Judas, Joseph Bruce Ismay..and the list doesn't really go on and on because history doesn't really record fear....

You tell fear…

You are beautiful…. wonderfully and fearfully beautiful…

You’ll be fine

XxX