Held Hostage By Fear
What's your worst fear?
Are you able to name one?
Death should; obviously be the result, wouldn't you think?
Nah, dying is easy.
Everything else in between; well...
That's where fear is.
Where is fear?
Everywhere
Anywhere
Nowhere—
I've looked fear in the eyes.
Touched fear
Inhaled fear
I've even put tiny drops of fear on thin sheets of paper, just so I could…
Taste fear—
I wonder what fear smells like?
It smells like Wal-Mart in here.
They say that curiosity killed the cat.
Fear must have hid the hammer behind its back.
Science makes fear.
They inject fear into animals.
Test it on humans.
It’s okay; it's only a...
Test!
A social experiment-
Uh…Uh—
Hurry up and say something quick, these people are onto us!
Fear is in the classroom.
Insecurely projecting its anger through the bully;
He's probably not allowed to talk about his feelings’ at school.
He's a number.
It's work to the teacher.
Mom is always on the phone.
Dad does whatever… Mom says.
Fear doesn't say, "How are you feeling?"
Fear already knows.
The secret language of fear is unspoken.
Its sign language based off of body language.
Fear has serious mental issues.
Believing in his own lies—
What's fear's zodiac sign?
It's on the cuffs of yours and mine!
-I-6-15
Submitted on 8-28-17 into contest: Fear
Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi
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