Someone once asked me
What my greatest fear was
I told them
Dying with the same mindset
As I possess in this phase of life
My mindset is my greatest fear
My biggest insecurity
It is not my weight
My grades
Nor my personality
- though truth be told
I have struggled with those too-
In reality
By biggest insecurity
Is my drive to do more
To be more
The fear that I can achieve more
And yet never will
Never do
The fear that I am good enough
But not hard working enough
Not strong enough
Not positive enough
Not ready enough
To achieve the "good"
That I know is within meI am terrified to die
With that same mindset
I'm terrified to die
Still wishing that to my life
There should have been moreThe problem is
That I know
When I die
I will go to a place
where there is more
Much more
A splendid, perfect, radiant place
A place where I will be perfect
A place where I will stay perfect
Where I will be enough
Where my achievements don't matter
A perfect place where I am enough
Eternally.
The problem is I know
That my fear is unreasonable
When I did
I will go to
The home of the "more"
I search so longingly for
Yet I still fear that
I I will be left empty of that more
Just short of enoughness
Until the day I dieBut perhaps that is how
My life was intended to be
With sin can darkness
And with darkness fear
I fear that I will never
Achieve enough
Strive for enough
Love enough
I fear that I will
Never be enough
Yet I know
I know within my heart of hearts
That when I die
I will rest forever
In the palace of eternal glory
In the home of a King
And for all of eternity
I will be enough
I will be wrapped in love
Coated in joy
And I will be so relinquished of myself
That my achievements
will no longer matter
They will be of no concern
For I will be enough
Simply because I will finally be home
Home
Heaven
Home
A place where I do not need
To strive for more
Because there
I am more than enough

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Poetry***PSA- PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ MY MOST RECENT ADDITIONS TO THIS POETRY SAGA. I've been writing in this poetry journal since 2016 and they do get progressively better and more insightful.*** thank you carry on: These poems contain snippets of my...