Expecting the worst
Only breeds anxiety
Learn to face your fears
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tag Archives: afraid
Do Not Live In Fear
Do not live in fear
For this life is far too short
To waste cowering
Bowing to the terrorist
Only serves to feed their fire
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Fear of the Future
Fear of the future
A phobia most obscure
Consuming many
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Why be afraid of something
That happens by the second
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tragedies Shadow
Tragedies shadow
Looms large over the fallen
Raining blood and tears
Some choose to help, some to pray
Some choose to turn a blind eye
Or no choice at all
Afraid it might be too real
Who am I to judge
I cannot speak for others
As I do not know their pain
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I Long For Silent Sleep
I long for silent sleep
Where dreams take holiday
And nightmares cower in their tombs.
Oh how I have prayed for the abolition of my demons
Banishing them back to Hell,
But I am weak and afraid.
They claw at me in my waking hours
And draw blood in my slumber.
I am but a frightened child
Bowing to their every whim.
To fight them can only encourage pain,
A pain suffered more than once o’er’ these many years.
So I deny the monsters that haunt me;
Pretending that all is well
While I await their next onslaught.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Do Not Cower in Darkness (Cyclical Rubaiyet)
Do not cower in darkness, in this imaginary fear
The black is nothing but starkness, in one’s own mind my dear
A thing of fairytales and nursery rhymes and legends of all kinds
Impotent in daylights harshness, our worries disappear
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Oh…the tricks and fears we dream with our active mind
No matter how many tears we cry there are always more to find
Dry your eyes my little one, for none of this is real
As daylight wanes, evening nears, dreams and nightmares intertwined
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Time will tell that all is well, for I know quite how you feel,
Bedtime comes to room you dwell, to God you pray and kneel
With deepest hope your wishes and dreams most in earnest hear
Before you know as parent this same to your own children heal
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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AUTHORS NOT: This poem was inspired and modeled after the Persian Rubaiyet form introduced to me by Jen over at Blog It or Lose It, please check out her blog, I think you will enjoy it.
I Saw the Mountain (Tanka)
I saw the mountain
And it called me to conquer
But I shyed away
Too terrified of the climb
To reach my full potential
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Dearest Me
Dearest me…
What have you been afraid of all these years?
Just look at all the damage you’ve done!
Your fear of failure caused us to fail.
Your fear of rejection filled us with loneliness.
Your fear of disappointment stymied enjoyment.
Your fear of intimacy sustained our solitude.
Your fear of hurt built our hardened facade.
Your fear of living has stunted our life.
Your fear of dying has fueled an unending search.
Your fear, your fear, our fear…
What more do I want from me?
Have we not shed enough blood,
Given our pound of flesh,
Enough for a lifetime?
Wake up and smell the roses
We’ve been standing in this garden all our life
But we’ve been too afraid to see it.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I originally wrote this as my submission for the WDBWP Monday poetry prompt, but then realized it wasn’t the correct form. I still liked the poem so I thought I would post it anyway.
Monsters And Demons – A Tanka
Monsters and demons
Hide inside each one of us
Life of denial
Scared to face our deepest selves
Afraid of what we might see
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Loneliness – A Septolet
Loneliness,
self imposed
out of shyness,
A struggle.
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Afraid
of hurt,
I’ll remain invisible.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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