Panic
Panic
A sheet of red covering my brain
Breaths coming fast
Too fast.
No danger, just my thoughts,
As I ride in the back
The landscape passes by,
And I decide
To throw my panic to the wind
Leave it behind…
For just a while longer.
But days turned to months,
Months to a year,
Until finally, I couldn’t stop.
The panic set in
At just a hint.
To stop the fear,
I stopped the thoughts,
But they eventually caught up.
It was almost too late,
the opportunity almost passed me by.
But just in time,
I realized,
You can’t avoid fear for long,
It eventually catches up.
You can’t give in,
Nor let panic overcome,
Because fear can debilitate
Or strengthen.
It can rise you to new heights
And show you things you’ve never seen before.
Because from the clouds,
You see both where you’re from
And where you can go.
But you need to leave the ground first.
All the time, all the panic
I just needed to learn
That I had wings to fly.
To learn that I could go to college
To succeed, to rise.
To grow and find my own strength
My own way.
Without the fear,
I would never have grown
To meet my full potential.