Feel the ripples of fear
don't hesitate, draw near,
people spend their lives avoiding 'situations',
running away from 'situations'

Consequences of such avoidance - 
sins of omission -
frozen secrets in rocks of ice
leak out into Trilobites
staring out of the deepest past

It is, of course, possible for
any woman or man
to stop this dance of death
by just being who we are,

Every act of being expresses
a nostalgia for the innocence from which we arose
this awareness flows into the everyday life of the mind
leaving those ripples of fear far behind.

It is a mistake to believe that the brave
do not feel fear
it takes a great deal of bravery
to stand up to bullying enemies of life
who want to kill us.

Whether in our own mind
or in other worlds 
strong beliefs can hold fear at bay
while (wo)men bravely get on
with the important work of the day-to-day.

And, anyway, the opposite of bravery
is not cowardice but conformity
scared of being in a minority
of being unpopular, of standing out,
and it is indifference and complacency
that murder the soul
that make people old,