Walking through the Dark

Fear is being unleashed into our society.
  It like a plague, is highly infectious.

Given any license, it will sink its tendrils deep into
  our hearts, souring our perspective.

It will trigger our most ancient instinct to survive,

  place a pall over our minds and ability to think.

It can turn us into automatons;
  reacting instead of choosing,
  fighting, running, freezing
  rather than taking measured actions.

Fear is normal, natural, part of the human experience.
  Feel it, honor it, love it, and then

quiet your body, your mind, your heart.
  Remember the beautiful, sacred, loving.
  Reach out to, and develop, your community.

Once recentered in your heart and your community,

  consider the thing that caused the fear
  from a new perspective, with supports.

You are a powerful being,
  a being of light and love,
  a being able to live into your highest ideals

  a being standing in community.

Together, we can do this.