When Love Outweighs The Fear – Poetry by Markus Hamence, May 2026

There’s a man standin’ nervous
with a suitcase full of doubt,
countin’ every broken window,
tryin’ to map a safer route.

But the wind keeps blowin’ questions
through the alleys of his mind,
sayin’, “Boy, you weren’t born
just to run and hide.”

When your love outweighs the fear,
the chains don’t fit the same,
the night don’t sound so lonely
and the fire calls your name.

There’s a woman by the roadside
with roses in her hair,
laughin’ at the thunder
like she never learned despair.

She says, “Every great tomorrow
starts by leavin’ something gone,
you can’t keep clutchin’ darkness
when the daylight’s movin’ on.”

So let the old ghosts argue
with the echoes of the years,
you were made for more than tremblin’,
more than drownin’ in your fears.

Because love’s the rolling highway,
fear’s just gravel in the rain,
and the heart keeps moving forward
like a slow and restless train.