Insecurity* and Uncertainty
Are conjoined twins

At the breast
At the hips
Share one heart

But dreaming minds
Are opposite....

Insecure yearns to learn to know
More of one's strengths
To want / to star / in one's own show

But deep down to just
Be in or have - love,
And have-not the pain of lonely / lost.

While...

Uncertain, a nervous nelly,
Frights at all things,
Knots in one's belly,

Avoids the world, preoccupied
Runs away and closes one's eyes
Still Uncertain
Becomes experienced

A slow student who covets time
And gains wisdom in resilience
Discarding fears of one's own mind...

Both of will
And body grown
Both with heart
Their love has sown

The seeds / kind of ugly
May be the kindest lives

From rough and coal
Becoming
A diamond light...

Inside
One's eyes...
*Behold beautifully