I AM NOT AFRAID

by | Dec 28, 2015 | Poetry | 0 comments

Noli temeram…
nihil timeam…

I am not afraid…
I fear nothing…

I do not dwell within the realm of Fear…
Dread has relinquished its dominion unto me.
Disquiet’s trespass has no lordship of my soul…
Nor I am in the servitude of Terror.
I am not afflicted by perfidious Fright.

I will not capitulate to Perversion’s unpleasant pass…
Doubt will not sully me with its demeaning presence.
Mischief’s misdeeds will not diminish me…
Nor am I hindered by Sorrow’s shameful test.
I am not laid low with pernicious Pestilence.

I will not be thwarted by Tribulation’s sadistic blot…
Horror avails me not to yield to its measure.
I will not be confounded by the clamour of Derision…
Woe’s lamentation will not anguish me…
And Barbarity’s cruel contempt does not defile me…

I fear nothing…
I am not afraid…

I truckle not to Torment’s indelicate embrace…
For Calumny’s curse affords me no concern.
I am not once discomfited by Pain…
Despair has no authority of my mind.
I am unstricken by Misery and Lament…
Death’s empty threat does not discourage me.

I am not scourged with unremitting Coil…
Nor trammelled by Insult’s vulgar disdain.
I will not suffer Life’s vicious malevolence…
Nor will I wilt to Misadventure’s vexatious knot.
I do not fold to Ridicule’s scurrilous complaint.
I will not buckle to Betrayal’s mendacious charm.

I submit not to Misfortune’s mischievous wit…
I am not encumbered with the burthen of Helplessness.
I am neither worsened by Futility’s lot…
Nor false beguiled by pathetic Pity’s deceit.
I do not succumb to the vengeance of vile Spite…

I fear nothing…
I am not afraid

I will uphold the humble in their plight…
I will magnify the meek unto their enemies.
I will champion the disadvantaged often times…
And lend succour to the despondent in their chill.
I embrace the oppressed, and unconfine them to their misery…
I will uplift the righteous in their war with sin.

I heed not proud Peril’s spiteful persuasion…
I accommodate Cruelty’s callous claws.
I am immune to the wiles of Adversity…
I am irrepressible, unmastered, unconquered and unbowed.
I prosper unsoiled, untainted, unmarred, untarnished…
Travesty’s injustice takes no test of me…

I subvert the wicked wiles and repugnant reckoning of
Iniquity’s insidious endeavours with equanimous dignity.
It arrides me to contemn my encounter with Apollyon
And brave the terrorist, the nihilist, the Mephistophelian malcontent…

Regardless of the veracity of matters,
From the scourge of vocal clamour
I take my own council.
I am the sentinel of mine own truth…
I am the controller of mine own governance.
I have command of the ordinance of my destiny.
Good fortune will be of my unfettered choice…

I fear nothing…
I am not afraid…

I do not search for answers in my quests…
I seek only for whatever will chance to be.
I tread surely upon the path I have set for myself…
My stride is steadfast and sure and purposeful.
My endeavour is unremitting towards the approaching storm…
Courage is my accomplice in my deeds.
Fortitude is my companion and my kin…
Contentment is my devoted confederate.
I laugh unwounded unto Mischance’s scorn…

I fear nothing…
I am not afraid…

I am undaunted in any task I undertake…
While I accommodate a confidence of being.
My fealty is to my aspirations…
My faith is in the thraldom of my ambitions.
I am unwearied in my resolve…
I am bold in my resistance to the imperium of Doom.
I have an accomplished artistry in assuaging afflictions…
I have nothing to concern me… I will prevail…

Nihil timeam…
noli temeram…

I fear nothing…
I am not afraid…

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