Is there
some kind of fun,
exhilaration,
in being scared
out of our wits?
In real life
there is no fun
in the roller-coaster
of circumstance
and emotion -
when dark dread
falls on human souls,
when disappointment
and despair
hold us
in their vice,
pin us down
with no escape...
Yet not alone!
God knows -
he reaches down
to pluck us
from the depths
of our despair
into the depths
of his love
and care!