To Ignore Fear and Doubt

Can I but dig a shallow trench within 

To bury all the failures from my past 

And find the traps to keep me far from sin? 

Success, I know, will come to me at last.  

The walls and battlements fill me with fear, 

I tremble knowing what it takes to scale 

Those well defended towers, Satan reared. 

Yet onward must I march, I will not fail.  

From some infected wound upon my heart 

The pangs of memory call me to quit. 

The pain is not now real though, I will start 

My labors now, all true, not counterfeit.  

Although confusion reigns within my brain, 

My heart still says I know what's now to gain.  

Frank Garnick