A black widow waits
For a lumbering beetle
To deliver lunch

Fear screamed, “NO!”
And I went exactly
Where it told me not to go.

I said:
“Fear is a challenge,
A trial, a test I’ll take,
A curse I’ll break.”

I said:
“I fear no creation;
Fear is poisonous illusion
Usurping dignity,
And I refuse to give into tyranny.

“At the end of the day,
What are you
But threatened pride and ego?
What are you
But insecure and evil?”

I said:
“Indeed
You are small and weak,
Master of the ignorant
And the meek.”

She'll spend her last breath
Doing laps around the sun
Until they are one

The sun takes her place
Nature's actors prep their lines
Songs ring out showtime

The sun's a pothead
She puffs on her pipe all day
Fishbowling the Earth