Fear

Fear can be overcome by facing it they said.
She remembered it
s she quaked in her shoes
when he approached her with his belt.
Face your fears, she had been told and remembered,
as she watched him come closer.
It requires courage they said
which she remembered
at each lash.
She wondered with each cry of pain
whether they would have done the same
if they had received the lash
everyday of their lives.