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FEAR
I’m standing naked
in front of my own fear.
Only him and me
in front of the mirror of
life. And I’m watching him
with wide eyes opened and
I’m asking him, is he
afraid of my ego
and my crazy desire to
win. He looks silently at
me, my fear,
indifferent, without a blink of an eye
without a heart,
and no hugs.
But now I feel like I’m prevailing,
crossing all obstacles of self-pity,
and the curses of the evil men in black.
And I feel my big fear shrinking
as I walk on my toes,
overrunning years of nonsense.
And I was born again
in the glare of the Universe,
free of burdens of the life
free to fly, somewhere where
no one can touch my wings
of dreamer.
About the Author: Jasna Gugić is the Vice-President for public relations of the Association of Artists and Writers of the World SAPS; She is a co-editor of the anthology, Compassion—Save the World, one poem written by 130 world poets. Jasna is a multiple winner of many international awards for poetry and literature, and her work has been translated into several world languages. Her first independent collection of poetry was published in 2021, a bilingual English-Croatian edition, entitled Song of Silence. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
