Life's Fears -- The Poem

I spent a year and a half looking for this poem I wrote circa 2001. It's not a very good poem. It's one of my early ones. I was on this site called Themestream and it paid per click, each time people clicked on your story as it accumulated they would pay you for it. So I had to get to writing then to garner readers. This was one of my most popular poems on my page. A publisher even asked to add it to his anthology of poems. This was so long ago.

Anyway, so when I switched computers and took down my site, and of course Themestream shut down, I just couldn't locate this poem. I went through this journal, Diaryland (yes I had one of those too), and then, finally last night I went through each update on my Livejournal blog (yes, I had that one too. I'm pathetic) before I could find it. So having multiple journals on the web does have it's advantages. It's like a storage facility in the sky (cloud!). I just missed the poem. It's simplistic and predictable but, it's mine and it's an original. 

LIFE'S FEARS
Are you afraid of life?
Of the timidity of one’s soul
The harshness of one’s heart
The quiver of every beat
And the tenderness of the mind’s hurt
That is, thus but scary.
Like the lightness and brightness
Has vanished ever so rapidly
This is the true nature of life
And that is why,
We should all be afraid
Be very afraid.

 

Are you afraid of life?
Afraid to wonder to which direction it leads
And to which ark it hits its point
At what time will we hang our hats?
And stop to smell the flowers of nature
To give that stray hand
To everyone who lacks one?
And kiss the wind
For blowing away the tears of pity
That is… the end point of life
So let us not be afraid
Not even a little bit.