When I Have Fear Poem by James McLain

When I like you possess that fear,
then I perhaps.
It like you, must I like that you see.
Perhaps it's not,
such is the scope of all our lots.
Before my pen like a lake and deep it has.
Your face in ink is looking back.

High before even higher are stacks of books.
Which of fear now falling where I stacked.
Grasp the right way, loose the wrong.
In the end complete each mind then it appears.

It accumulates the words.
The sand of mans worth.
When I see all the stars at night.
Think then perhaps when that perhaps,
I have come by choice to never live in that.

Up the high road enormous the sign.
It is erased by the rain never cloudy.
And because fear has left you in grace.

I have seen every mean made shadow,
which loads the magic hand that life has delt.
When and if of what I feel it leads to more.
Whom when they thinking,
think of they I fear it never less.

Then I have like you of this world I stand alone.
Independent of the fear when it is gone.
Until this love of honors wound is healed.
Reputations built on lies, that don't exist.