remain calm

do you think that if you fell out of an airplane
at 10,000 feet
without a parachute
you'd be able to remain calm?

how about if you were captured
and your captives
comitted some horrible atrocity
against your body?

or if you were walking down the sidewalk
and the person in front of you
suddenly burst
into spontaneous combustion?

or how about if you were sitting
beside a stream
and the water
just kept flowing right on by?