Love Terrifies Fear
Day 5: Both love and fear motivate
Motivation
Pick your poison
Fear drives the train off the rails
Runaway tracks do assail
Can be hard to bail
When fear’s the driver
See everyone as a conniver
Sinking deeper and deeper, diver
Preconceived notions reality will confirm
Satisfying the fear becomes primary concern
Until everything around you has become the germ
Infectious, dangerous, inciting loss
To be destroyed at all costs
Suddenly you’re at war with the molecule
Destroy yourself too before you get a clue
But that’s the price you pay in fear
When the spiraling head is allowed to rear
The damage done is by no means mere
Fear motivates destruction
Avra Kadavra: I destroy as I speak
Motivation
This is your creation
Love is the wind in your sails
On the open sea you cannot fail
Propelling you forward with whispers of encouragement
It would never dream of serving your detriment
Allows reflection, see yourself in everyone
Empathy and connection overwhelm
In community is power
You will never have to cower
For Love is all-conquering
Never stoops to fear-mongering
Light travels through darkness
A force we can harness
Darkness cannot exist in the light
(Darkness is simply the absence of light)
It can only exist in shadows, hiding away from the bright
Just as fear cannot persist in Love
(Maybe fear is simply the absence of Love)
Which is why Love terrifies fear
The two dance to prove fear cannot subsist here
Because Love dissolves fear’s power
Truth will be known the final hour
Love motivates creation
Abra Kadabra: I create as I speak
© 2021 Jessica Wolf
This poem is my 5th entry in this 10 Day Challenge — Day 5 Prompt: Both love and fear motivate. Thanks for the challenge Diana C.!
If you enjoyed this you can check out my 1st entry here, 2nd entry here, 3rd entry here and 4th entry here!
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