I simply do not fear!: A poem 

I simply do not fear! I don’t lug it 

along with my possessions  

every time I move to a new destination. 

You may be embarrassed and frustrated  

by your own effort to stent it in my veins   

Do you feel ashamed of your own oft-enacted  

oppression, intimidation? I have never been  

locked in yolks; there is no prison for 

the expansive wonderment of soul; 

And the pain simply does not bereave, when 

persuaded by the passion. I do not fear 

the strategic treachery that encumbers me 

and makes love a victim of villainy 

I do not tarnish traitors out of duress 

I can see far into the origins of treason, 

behind the decoys that it seeks to present 

I can be a hypocrite to treat hypocrisy 

with its own bitter medication. I am not bewitched 

by mirages of deceit; I simply do my duty

I do not have the fallible instincts  

of Adam and Eve, nor do I have their innocence;  

though I may have to face the prospect of being  

blindfolded in ignorance. I do not fear that my love  

and loyalties are always being snatched from me 

by treachery. I am replete with the wisdom 

that, in eternity, treachery will be defeated by its own treachery!