Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

There are things to be afraid of, certainly.
I am not among them.

Yes, evil spirits that go bump in the night –
I have known them; I am not among them.

No one needs be afraid of me but me –
indeed, I was, for I carried the monsters

within me, too quietly and for too long.
I am not among them.

I am not, nor ever was, a monster.

Nor are you. You are not among them,

though you carry them with you, have
done so, too quietly and for too long.

Live! Fear them not. Stare them down.
Let them go. You are not among them.