Fear Will Always Choose
The words you have to say
The feelings you can't shake
Fear will tell you, "Wait,"
Because Fear is not afraid
She does not hold back or quake
She does not waver or make mistake
Fear knows what she does
She topples empires and loves
It is we who do not know
Fear's secret, hidden troves
There is power in Fear
Because Fear understands "Near,"
And "Far," and "Dear,"
She will reveal the heart's wishes
And she will destroy it if she wishes
Because Fear is the separation
Of the individual from the situation
When you can't think, or act
Fear becomes the cataclysm
You move then, with ambition
To harm or to lose
Fear will always choose.
This poem is about:
Me
My community
Our world
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