Otherness Phobia
Life flows in the self-made furrow
You make from the known for tomorrow
The journey you dither to take beyond familiarity
For knowledge is a sense of security.
The challenges build daunting barrier
You strive boldly, but can't cross over
You may try to change the track to win
The venture you don’t risk for the unseen.
Some known roads will collapse for sure
You can no longer travel secure
In the unknown outside your domain
Things remote, out of sight they remain.
If you build your own road and are proud
It would soon be full of nameless crowd
Strangers would scramble and stay on
An act of intrusion you would reckon.
The mind coded to endure what you own
For the aliens, it gets signal unsafe and unknown
It closes in the clutch of confined fear in harness
You are scared of the unfamiliar otherness.
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March 31, 2023
For A Brian Strand Premiere No 1205 Contest
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