Fear

Let me give myself a pep talk

So that I can face my biggest roadblock

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Why am I not making progress

I am afraid, I must confess

It is as if I seem to fear

Fear itself, therefore I adhere

To old beliefs that feel “safe” to me

Beyond my fear, I am afraid to see

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But to my brain I need to emphasize

The pearl of wisdom I’ve recently realized

That everything I want is to be found

On the other side of fear, there’s no way around

Fear- I just have to face it and wade across

Otherwise it would be a tremendous loss

What I want would never be mine

If I let fear my actions define

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Let me inhale, ingest, digest my fear

And witness a path forward appear

Being fearful led me nowhere anyway

So let me discard my fear today