Stop, look @ fear

But do not analyze it

Artwork by A.B. Godfreed

Why worry of what
you wear
when cloaked in so much
insecurity
& fear,
fear of losing
fear of loneliness
fear of old age
fear of dying in mediocrity
you know your fears
a dime a dozen of them
so afraid of being
empty
of being nothing.

Stop,
look at fear closely
don’t analyze
this
won’t dissolve angst
observe:
not so much
the many branches of fear
its torments and tenacity
but
look to its roots
the whole of it
see
in essence
fear is fundamentally
a question of time
torture through thought,
yet
time ceases
when there is only
what is.