On this practical joke day - April fool
Rather than make your fellow a fool,
Make the spirit in you
that hates you being you;
The spirit that restricts your steps
and makes a fool out of you.
Don't you know that when you allow fear
live in you, you create an avenue to be fooled?
For if despite the fear, you still forge ahead,
You'll realize you can do that which fear says you can't!

Oh! See your life,
Fear has been fooling you all along;
Making you think you can't, that you're a failure.

So today, fool fear back!
Tell him you're not the fool he thinks you are;

When fear comes looking for you today,
When you're about to take that bold step again,
Ignore him, treat him like a fool
by acting like he's never there, present.

You know the way a person feels
when people ignores him/her in their midst?
The person feels like an utmost fool right?

Just make fear feels the same way
And don't just do this for the sake of today,
Do it every other day to liberate yourself from being a fool again.

© AM Odunayo