Don’t Fear

-Don’t Fear-
by
Keaton Foster



Unafraid
No shame
Reserving doubt
Without clout
Stand for something
A slide of the hand
A twist of the tongue
Words on a once blank page
Life, what an illusion
Begging for something more
Be a monochromatic copy
Of a litany of other copies
Each one just a bit different
Then the hundreds before it
Some might question the lines
Some might inspect the folds
Some might add a crease
Or bend over the edges
Of your clearly defined space
Regardless of their time to waste
Stand as you are
Not as they intend you to be
Don’t fear
What you can’t see
What you can’t perceive
Impossible this may seem
Advice from a madman
Input from a lunatic
Standing here on the fringe
I know what is both ahead
And far behind
I understand my location
And every possible implication
I myself have no fear
Because I have nothing else
And once you reach this place
This intrinsic state of existence
Life itself becomes impotent
Innocuous and irrelevant
Such a place, absolute freedom
Mired by nothing human
Only the beat of your heart
And the expulsion of air
Will you come to hear
Don’t fear
Come close
Come near
Reach out your hand
I will grab hold
With a death grip
I will never let go
Unsure you might become
Challenged you might seem
Screaming for meaning
You might never live to see
But then again
My pseudo psychosomatic friend
What if there is even a chance
Don’t you want to take it
Don’t fear
I would not entice you to such a place
To such a beautiful state
Unless I was quite certain
That such a location is where
You needed to be most of all…


Don’t Fear
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013