Fear

Staring into nothing,
At a pathway unresolved
My thoughts were clouded,
All one thousand and one of them
That I couldn't pen
That I couldn't give tongue to
But they kept running through my mind
Making passes, leaving notes
And this, I said, is due to fear
The fear that overpowered
And shuts me down
The fear of the unknown
Of life and of death
The fear that sends me floating
In a dark space
I gripped tight, the rope
Trying not to drift off into darkness
But now, in another dimension
A destiny I couldn't escape
Looking into the life I left drowning
In dirty waters
The one that went deaf on ears
Seized by nerves
And destroyed by toxic thoughts
I asked herself again,
"Exactly what was it that I feared?"
A shadow appeared,
My own shadow...
"You feared ME."

-PRK-