Subimal Sinha-Roy Poet Rhyme

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For Margarita Lillico's Contest : My Worst Enemy Is ...". Dated August 24, 2026.

Fear

The dreadful storm brews in the horizon recess,
my old boat sailing in the turbulent river tosses.
Rains come in terrifying torrents from leaking space,
my frail house struggles to stand in place.

Unrestrained intolerance spreads like deadly virus, 
thrusts my trust onto the brink of looming menace. 
Terminal disease strikes the mortal blow,
my body knows its vulnerability isn’t low.

Clouds of insecurity surge with tempest severe,
agonized mind sucked into the whirlpool of fear
swirls in the vortex of noxious fright of gale,
divested of the feeling that fear could be notional.

When life saunters on my own pathway, I feel proud,
but soon it’s full of intruding aliens of nameless crowd.
In the clutch of xenophobia I suffer in distress, 
for I am scared of the unfamiliar otherness.

The journey’s end seems to be in dire plight,
as the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t in sight.
The scared senses feel the air of hazard unknown,                                
where wrecked hope piles up in trepidation zone.

Prudence augments my fear growing in qualms deep,
can’t rationally control the state causing panic to creep.
Wisdom doesn’t allay fear, an artifact of emotion innate, 
but provides the acuity to face it with strength sedate.

The end is engraved in the beginning, I can’t disown, 
for I’m constantly alarmed to face the unknown
at the final ordained milepost; the truth frightens me, 
as all the time I fight fear, my worst enemy.

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