Conversation with an English Sardine

Fear has a specific purpose: you fight or flee.
If you're practiced enough in both,
you need not worry.
Anxiety is part of your being:

Whereas what might happen on Thursday
is beyond control.
Not a thing you can do about it!
In the meantime, swim!

What makes you think you are different?
A peculiar pride
that holds tight to the bad as to riches.
Might as well be glad!

You're one in a school of small fishes.
All lives are short.
What will happen, certainly will.
Be a sport about it!