Featured Poem: Facing Our Fears

By Nancy Keats Benson
Central New York Branch

 

we walk silently

night seeping into our fibers

 

we forget when

smiles effervesce into sunshine

no need to worry

 

placate all anxieties

remove notions of harm

and stay the calm

down to our fingertips

 

let the fears arise

engender ourselves

with new light, new strength

and position our thoughts to

conquer the beasts.

 

 

8 comments

  1. Claire Massey says:

    This poem reminds us that our inner resources can indeed “conquer the beasts”–Thank you, Nancy, for fortifying us!

  2. Janet Fagal says:

    Oh, Nancy, a poem to touch everyone. We all worry and sometimes it just gets to be too much. Letting in the light, staying positive, choosing to survive and fight the “beasts”, it’s all there in a poem that makes me think and remember what my father always would say, “what are you worrying for?” I was mainly pondering and thinking, but he took a Dale Carnegie course called How to Stop Worrying and Start Living and wanted me to realize worrying might do nothing to help me. I attribute my positive attitude to him and to my mother. We can never give in to our fears even when it is so dark we just don’t know how we can move on. Thank you.

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