Beloved fear,
I’ve got you.
I don’t need to change you.
I hold you and still, you are fear.
Still, you tremble and shake.
And I’ve got you in that too.
I’m not holding you to change you.
I’m holding you because you are afraid and I see that you need support.
I will wait for you.
I will take you with me.
I will not place you in the driving seat of my experience.
I will not lean into you to make my decisions.
They are not your responsibility.
I do not ask that of you.
I will choose from the place that is holding you.
I will choose from the place in me that somehow holds all of me.
I do not know how this power in me to hold, holds all it holds.
And yet I know that it holds.
I know that I hold my life in me.
And for as long as life is in me,
I choose to continue to hold life.
Sadhu Valakhilyas
