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 Writing a Scary Poem

 

It’s hard to write a scary poem

while I’m trying not to

think of scary things.

 

I have to convince myself

my safari guides

don’t want me to be

gored by a rhino,

mauled by lions

or snapped in half by a hippo

any more than I want to be.

 

And I remind myself

that God is with me

wherever I go whether

Colorado, Arizona, Nebraska,

New York or Kenya.