To fearlessly live and love

I feel my heart bursting in my chest

With the unlived life I long to live

And the unloved love I long to express and give

It seems to me now

And I see most clearly

How and when I held back

How every attempt to connect

Held painful reminders

Of old grief, tearing aparts, and loss

I had endured

And not fully recognised nor released

That painful mix of fear and trepidation

Has on some level dogged my soul

These long years

And kept me a prisoner

In my own world

A world from within which

It sometimes feels too precarious to reach out

But I am beginning to see that each day

We die a little as we live

And live a little as we die

And if we don’t accept and embrace this fact

We limit our life

And our love

And our being

And our heart

From flowing out like a river

From the eternal spring

Of the deep soul

Within us

So today I pray

Please release me from this fear

And help me to recognise

That as essential as has been

Its protective role

The courage to release it

And act

Despite its ghostly whisperings of doom

Is what life is asking

Of me

Now