An Enlightening Darkness

The dimming candle is a flickering light fixture

Shadows dance across the walls

"Only the brave acknowledge the mixture..."

The thought tosses & turns in my mind

I roll over in bed, close my eyes

& lose sight of courage

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I awake to darkness

My room, reverberating 

With a crescendo of impending doom

Illuminated by the lunar light

From a crescent moon

It is night

* * * * * * *

I awake to light

& look out the foggy bay windows

Doubt rises with the sun...

But a sudden wind blows the clouds away

Dreams from the night, now in sight

It is day

* * * * * * *

The fear of failure

To get it all right

Is quite all right

Fear and bravery

Day and night

"Only the brave acknowledge the mixture"

* * * * * * *

It's all a constant balancing act
I step outside
& look up at the sky to find
That in the bright blue hue of noon

The sun's shine was combined with the lunar light

Of that same crescent moon

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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." ~ Nelson Mandela