If You Can Face A Challenge Poem by Francis Duggan

If you can face a challenge with a smile on your face
And the cause of your anxiety with joy does embrace
Then you are already halfway to conquering your fear
A good attitude makes a looming challenge not as bad as it does appear
But you become conquered by fear when to fear you give way
In what will become for you a stressful and unhappy day
Your attitude in any difficult situation for you does count
And a negative attitude to a negative outcome for you does amount
People daunted by a challenge the ally of self belief does not avail
Their negative attitude in their time of need them does fail
But if you can face a challenge with joy in your mind
Then an ally in self belief to conquer your fear you will find
If you can face a challenge with a smile on your face
It weakens your challenge when it you do embrace.