Valuable Verbage

You can talk yourself into fear

You can talk yourself out

When hope is what you hear

Then you can turn it all about

©2022 Annette Rochelle Aben

lockup

When she’s scared to admit

The truth of her beauty

She won’t let others see

Beyond surface

It’s easier to hide

Behind a smiling mask

Of layers from her past

Safer that way

No one expects too much

Then she’s not rejected

Innocence protected

Fear’s prisoner

©2021 Annette Rochelle Aben

hanging around

Spends the day looking

For spiders that may be there

And they oblige her

©2020 Annette Rochelle Aben

decide

Fear’s only real

If you will let it stop you

Then it scores the win

©2017 Annette Rochelle Aben

abandon trip

Once the rain began

It was smooth sailing no more

Blast, hydroplaning!

© 2015 Annette Rochelle Aben