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Hello fear
Yes, you have a home here
Whether I like it or not
Whether I can survive it
Or not
How can I grow to hold you
While holding myself
Too
How can God help me to love you
Wholly
Despite what you do
Fear
What is your face?
How do you move through
The dark wood?
What are you hungry for?
What do you need?
Whenever I see your shadow
Feel your hot breath
Taste your musk
I want to run
I must
Run
Find refuge quick
Huddle in
Quiver
Shiver
Cover my exposed
Skin
How can you and I
Find
Some sort of companionship
Or at least
Avoid
Demolishment
How can I hear you
Before your cry
Has become a hurricane
How can I feel you
Before the earthquake of emotion
Threatens to open up the earth
And swallow me whole
Fear
See me here
Resourced
By God
Resourced
By everyone who I love
Sit by my side
No need to hide
Or sneak up behind
You can come to me
Sit
Rest
See
That I mean to befriend you
That I mean to accept you
You and I are connected
Since meeting that one day
And it is about time we
Acknowledge this truth
And say
“Hi”
“Let’s be friends”
“Let’s promise to meet here
In love and curiosity
Again and again”