The Archer's March

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  • Where I Belong
  • Daily Rendezvous
  • Eclipsed By You
  • To Don and Vincent Both
  • Life's Not a Race
  • True Friendship is Gold
  • Such a Cost
  • Therefore I Write
  • Suicide is Painless?
  • Fear Alone
  • You're Not Alone
  • Despair's a Sin
  • Let go, Let God
  • Hidden
  • Mathematical Virtue
  • Stuck in the Soup
  • De Leon's Dream
  • Echoes
  • In His Hand
  • Revolve, Evolve and Grow
  • Appreciation
  • The Summit
  • From the Jaws of Defeat
  • If Not First Myself
  • She Moves Me
  • Never Really Dark
  • To Ignore Fear and Dobt
  • Rise Above & Be the Light
  • Strive to Rebuild
  • I Really Don't Know
  • Let It Go
  • Goodness Never Marred
  • Despair Not
  • Defensores Libertatis
  • Spring
  • A Punic Picture
  • February Stroll
  • Ignore the Dark
  • Resolution
  • Unresolved
  • Va Tutto Bene?
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  • To Thine Ownself...
  • Doubt Kills All
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    • Home
    • About
    • The Sonnet
    • Intertextuality
    • I've Heard
    • I'll Sleep in Peace
    • Where I Belong
    • Daily Rendezvous
    • Eclipsed By You
    • To Don and Vincent Both
    • Life's Not a Race
    • True Friendship is Gold
    • Such a Cost
    • Therefore I Write
    • Suicide is Painless?
    • Fear Alone
    • You're Not Alone
    • Despair's a Sin
    • Let go, Let God
    • Hidden
    • Mathematical Virtue
    • Stuck in the Soup
    • De Leon's Dream
    • Echoes
    • In His Hand
    • Revolve, Evolve and Grow
    • Appreciation
    • The Summit
    • From the Jaws of Defeat
    • If Not First Myself
    • She Moves Me
    • Never Really Dark
    • To Ignore Fear and Dobt
    • Rise Above & Be the Light
    • Strive to Rebuild
    • I Really Don't Know
    • Let It Go
    • Goodness Never Marred
    • Despair Not
    • Defensores Libertatis
    • Spring
    • A Punic Picture
    • February Stroll
    • Ignore the Dark
    • Resolution
    • Unresolved
    • Va Tutto Bene?
    • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    • To Thine Ownself...
    • Doubt Kills All

The Archer's March

The Archer's MarchThe Archer's MarchThe Archer's March
  • Home
  • About
  • The Sonnet
  • Intertextuality
  • I've Heard
  • I'll Sleep in Peace
  • Where I Belong
  • Daily Rendezvous
  • Eclipsed By You
  • To Don and Vincent Both
  • Life's Not a Race
  • True Friendship is Gold
  • Such a Cost
  • Therefore I Write
  • Suicide is Painless?
  • Fear Alone
  • You're Not Alone
  • Despair's a Sin
  • Let go, Let God
  • Hidden
  • Mathematical Virtue
  • Stuck in the Soup
  • De Leon's Dream
  • Echoes
  • In His Hand
  • Revolve, Evolve and Grow
  • Appreciation
  • The Summit
  • From the Jaws of Defeat
  • If Not First Myself
  • She Moves Me
  • Never Really Dark
  • To Ignore Fear and Dobt
  • Rise Above & Be the Light
  • Strive to Rebuild
  • I Really Don't Know
  • Let It Go
  • Goodness Never Marred
  • Despair Not
  • Defensores Libertatis
  • Spring
  • A Punic Picture
  • February Stroll
  • Ignore the Dark
  • Resolution
  • Unresolved
  • Va Tutto Bene?
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  • To Thine Ownself...
  • Doubt Kills All

Fear Alone

The light breaks clear in eastern skies each day

Reminding me the past has passed and's gone.

Just as the dew below upon the lawn

Will burn away, so like the words I say.

For dusty death awaits us all in time

And nothing can forestall it in the end.

We mustn't let that end our wills to bend

Life's ladder's only there for us to climb.


When in the course of our ascent we find

A time or two a missing rung at hand,

We grope in darkness thinking we are blind.

Yet know redoubled effort carefully timed

Will close the distance, for we understand

It's fear alone that keeps us undermined


Frank Garnick


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