Ask The Thing You Fear

Don’t corner life with a whip and chair
dwelling in the wreckage of your future;
treating every new person and idea as a foe,
slithering around spoiling for a fight, 
finding someone to hate, anything to distract
you from the frightening, covert fact
of your native fright.

When the calcified hostility 
and caged cowardice mix
no longer work as your emotional fix,
then discover the psychic shift:
ask the thing you fear to give you a gift.

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