When Fear Rushes in...

When fear rushes in,

Nothing can stop it, not a solitary thing

(Not on this Earth, you think)

You feel worse than as a kid,

You would feel a bee sting,

You got scared, and with tears you ran to one,

The one called Mama

 

When Fear rushed in as a teen,

The Fear was with a life of it’s own

Your famous old anxiety too…

You wanted to take on your own place, site unseen

Yet you knew better to take action with

Your world colored so blue…

Or so you used to think staring at a TV screen

Your parents fighting to your “best interest”

Funny how that worked-you’re the center of their team

The fighting never stopped, a life all its own,

But not your own life, to which the fate

Lay quietly in your own hands.

 

These days, it’s different, somehow, some way.

Usually you stared at the TV, at a total loss

You know not what you’re to say,

Praying to God this would stop,

Looking for a way out, the price of our genetics enough to pay

Sometimes too much, you stop, listen,

And learn very fast how one quietly learns to pray.

Nothing helped, not time with one you love,

For they’ve got some pearls of “wisdom”

words so quietly said, you learn God is one who stays.

While people come and go-it is He who stands

At your side, loving you as His child

Whether you are an adult, or child chronologically,

Or through a learned experience you find God

Is the One always there, seen or unseen.