The Day You Lose Your Fear
The day you lose your fear
of sleeplessness, you will sleep
and the day you lose your fear
of wakefulness, you will awake
Only then will you realize, my dear
‘bribed defender of your fears’
that you do not need them so much
as they desperately need you
For you are far, far more than the sum
of these devious ciphers you suffer
the treasured lot clotting your chest
blocking an ever-rising sun from view
In light of their absence, you will clearly see
an essential self, free of borrowed shadow
you would hardly recognize that you now
unflanked by those old fears… believe me.
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