Giving Chase

Confusion seeps into your pores
Frustration takes hold of your mind
Fear paralyzes your heart
Sadness stalks your soul
What is this that chases you?
Weeks fly by before they begin
A great adventure ahead
A year of tumult behind
Why do you look behind in anxiety
Instead of ahead with eagerness?
You are happy at most times,
Feel blessed, feel elated
But sometimes shadows crowd dreams
Leaving coals of doubt to darken your days
At the least notice
Why is this? What is this that leaves these nagging worries?
You ask how do you give chase to it instead
of fearing it catching you?
Little One, brighten it all, extinguish the ash of the coals
Know that the future offers gifts of unknown content
Surely you know to expect the good with the fearful
Child, learn to seek the most and prepare your self for the least
There are gifts in both.
Don't live in wait of whats inside the present
Live in it.