No Longer Afraid! Poem by Eric Cockrell

the day you
wake up and realize...
you no longer have
any reason to pretend,
that you have nothing
of value left to lose,
that you cant change the past...

that the people that love you,
love you in spite of yourself.
that the people you hate
are just reflections of you.
that life cant be possessed,
and is not about possessing.
that what you leave behind
is your heart... nothing more!

that death is not the enemy,
not the end, but comes to all...
then you become...
no longer afraid!