FEAR

Every intention resumes
after laughter's intervention

yet fear lingers on with an ale
drunk on a Chaucer morality tale

Worry gets us in a hurry
let's not fret for our regrets

Anxiety will not freeze us
hiding like Zacchaeus in the trees

Zeus has wonderfully spoken
from oak breeze and thunderbolt,

Love spurned marriage to Malatesta
turned off Paolo and Francesca,

God's wrath we learn to avoid
or we yearn behalf of Dr. Freud.