The Garden of Fear

This is for Vocal's I Didn't Say That Out Loud challenge and Ellie Hoov's Wonderland challenge.

Hope blooms within the brambles. Michelle Liew

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There is a garden in the heart

Unkempt, with brambles borne of hurt

Where fear grows, untended

Choking growth, stifling balm

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The soil remembers every fear,

Each seed of doubt, by failure planted

Each naysaying quote that does unmoor,

Each lone stem that stands unwanted

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We stand there alone--

Shunning weeds that overgrow,

And the hands that quiver

When from garden's heart we pull.

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But a ray of light streams through this day

A tiny bloom, resilient, strong

Defies the stubborn weight of "nay"

And we see the right within the wrong.

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