Feelings

(Picture Credit - Tenor)

Feelings of fear, anxiety and hate

Served us well

Back in ancient times

When sabre toothed tigers threatened.

Those adrenaline rushes

Meant that we survived

Through taking flight

Or standing to fight

Like demons.

But in modern times

When physical threats are rare

(Though still too many)

We must Avoid

Such negative emotions.

For Fear can make you

A rabbit in the headlights:

Chronically anxious and depressed.

Or it can turn you

Into a snarling animal,

Snapping at everyone.

On both Arrakis and Earth,

Fear is the mind-killer

And little-death,

To be faced down

And then forgotten.

For we must, I repeat, cast aside

These negative feelings

Of fear and hate.

Instead we need

To nurture

Every budding

Of Love

Joy

Excitement.

We must empathise,

Be compassionate

Sympathetic

And Loving.

Above all,

We must Love.

Paul Butters

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