NaPoWriMo Day 3 Poem: I Refuse to Choose Fear

ALS NaPoWriMo Day 3 Prompt:

 

Our life is the result of choices we make, and also the ones we choose not to make, but we always have a choice. ‘To be or not to be’ is also a choice. Let’s inspire ourselves and others around us today around the thought that we always have a choice!

 

Here’s my take on the prompt:

 

Poem: I Refuse to Choose Fear

 

From resistance to acceptance, I travelled a great distance,

But I realized it was only a matter of choice–

A choice that freed me from my own binds

 

 

I was guarded by my thoughts, or so I thought,

Until I ascertained, I was trapped by choice–

Choice to be governed by restrictions of the mind

 

 

The storm of challenges callously uprooted me,

I allowed it to destroy until I crumbled–

Crumbled by the weight of my own decisions

 

 

Strength I always had, with choices infinite,

But I found myself obsessed to the one that was denied–

Denied so I could grow and learn to accept rejection

 

 

I chose to open the doors, especially the ones that were closed,

But the plethora that were open, I quietly chose to ignore–

Ignored the possibilities that awaited behind those doors

 

 

I ran amok in the world to prove my worth,

While I carried within myself, the entire Universe–

Universe that always shone the stars above my head

 

 

I harboured within myself, both angels and demons,

I surrendered to the demons in the face of uncertainty–

Uncertainty that orchestrated the dance of fears

 

 

A choice I make today; a promise to myself,

My choices will exhibit hope, not an ounce of rage or fear–

Fear too is a choice, and I refuse to choose fear!

 

©Vandana Bhasin

03.04.2024