Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Smouldering tongues of fire
Hot embers to be conquered

Heysel exhibition grounds
Bruxelles

I must not fail

Prove my courage
No limits
No boundaries
Prove my inner strength

Anxious
Behind three Hassidics
On the eve of The Sabbath
Waiting like Moses
The parting of the waters

'If they can do it
So can I'
Says my inner voice

A strength comes over me
I can
I can

As if on auto-pilot
Marching forward with purpose
I look back
Seeing glowing pathway

Ecstatic
Joy
Praise
Being hugged and
cheered

'That's it?'
Say I
Through my tears


Written at Birbeck University, London.  Memories of the Anthony Robbins UPW fire walk where I was a volunteer in Belgium.

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