Clouds of fear, sun of success

I stand on the podium,

Getting accolades

And applauds echoing in my ear

I remember those days, spent in fear.

The fear of failure,

The fear to lose,

A feeling I hated,

More than a booze.

It felt gloomy,

It felt dark

I used to wonder

Why I can't be a gay lark.

With the taxing times

Coming ahead

I could not find

Myself at rest.

Then came an angel,

Into my life

And helped me know,

Happiness does not come

Where anxieties rife.

I saw my angel,

I saw God

I looked back,

And I knew, fallacious is, what he was not.

He wiped the darkness

And helped me conquer the fear

He had this belief in me,

And was there for me to cheer.

He instilled in me

This very thought

Failure is not end, but a bend

And I consented with a nod.

I walked on the road to success,

I found the path

This journey from dusk to dawn,

Taught me I could have never seen the sun

With clouds of apprehension on my lawn.