Of Worry

"Cease from an inordinate desire of knowing,
for therein is found much distraction and deceit."
-Thomas a Kempis

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I have to laugh

at you, worry;--

who are you

but a demon

I have listened to?

Of things unfinished,

undone,

unbegun;

Of incompletes,

thoughts just conceived;

Of inconceivables

and things unseen;

Unknown,

unshown,

unowned;

Not been

nor shall ever

be for me.



I hate you both:

not mine this time, and

no peace in pining.



And so I hope.

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"May those who say to me, 'Aha! Aha!'
turn back because of their shame."
-Psalm 70:3