Melvin Johnson Poet Free verse

How I Defeated Fear With Wording

I saw fear the other day walking down the street.  
I stepped to the other side, but it decided to greet me.  
Not to form a misconception, I asked it what it wanted.  
It said it wanted to enter my body to take courage from the soul.  
I said, "Hold on, sir, let's talk about this because we've just met."  
It replied, "Excuse me, but we met a long time ago. You were just too young to remember, but fear said, I remember;  It was called being shy back then"  
I said, "Oh, that was you. I tried to block the view: Between my eyes it could see through.   I said that's when you left for a few, but here we are back in each other's eyesight." But I plan on putting up a fight.   
So I asked it, "What’s your next move?" It said, "My next move is to enter into you."  
As it proceeded to approach, I asked it a very simple question that would stop its existence: "What and who is fear to me? Because I will never let it exist in me."  
That question cleared the past between fear and me, and it left just as it came.

Revise version:

My vision met fear while taking steps on the pavement.  
The movement it made changed my course.  
But it intertwined with me with a greeting.  
My voice spoke with aggression; it would never be an agreement.  
Besides, our paths never crossed to a commitment.  
Its response was intellectual with a vocalized word called shy.  
To remember the presence of the body’s entrance,  
Voice went silent but spoke with conviction.  
The reply was a sentence where fear, and I became one.  
The answer was graphic, so the picture was clear.  
Fear became an abstract picture of no existence.

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