Hello all, and I am sorry for not posting anything new for such a long time. I have been quite busy with life, and its many obligations that compete for my time.
Here is a poem I wrote for a class I took back last Fall; I hope to hear your thoughts on it and see what you all think about it. It is a poem about the sea and a sailor’s fear and overcoming that fear.
Many Blessings,
Austin
A shadowed abyss swells the anxious heart,
Where uncertainty rests and takes abode.
Constructed bulwarks, seeping from the start,
Where our battered thoughts besiege and explode.
Each creek and stream flows, feeding dreads insight;
The mind’s a whirl, where spiraled fears abound.
A Midshipman calls from down below: “Brace!
Dear heart! Hold tight! She’s a running aground!”
Trembled steps for bearings, which we embrace;
Within the mist comes a whisper: “Silence.”
A port hole shows the fear that we must face.
“Be still, anxious heart, rest, I’m Providence.”
Alas, we tread through rivers fraught with tears,
For strength is born when we relinquish fears.