Fear

What is fear? It clutches and binds you; Its clinch constricts your conscience and gestures. It degrades and damages you; Its triumph abolishes your own proficiency to prosper. It stops and holds you; Its impeccable knack of holding you still is impassable. It overcomes and you surrender; Its will to thwart your approach has you anxious to ensue. It is burdensome and palpable; Its load weighs you down and disables your efforts. It is real and ever present; Its nearness is felt in your existence as it hides in wait. It is debilitating; It is maddening; It is caustic; What is fear? It is controllable and facilitated; You can clamber over the hindrances it extends you. It is fallible and erratic; You can perceive its shifting deeds as it scours for a way. It is provisional and remedial; You can tolerate its manifestation or expel it into a void. It is daunting and probable; You can be valiant and foretell its vain efforts against you. It is frail and cognizant; You can be assured that fear fears itself; it is casually ended. It is short lived and perpetual; You can sustain longer than fear, you can evolve as it ruins. It is ignorance; It is a curtain; It is cowardly; Fear is crushed with the knowledge of the entirety of a state. In these periods of terror we must cast fear in its just position, behind us, and trudge headlong against those who intimidate and threaten the beliefs for which we have battled arduously to safeguard, preserve, and be tolerant of. Fear is… Not an option today!