I can feel my sanity slipping

When my dreams decide

To invite reality into my mind

At night

When I am at my

Most vulnerable

And can't run away

Or fight back

And all I can do

Is watch as you approach

Already knowing

What is going to happen.

Falling, forever falling

Into the void of endless

Darkness

I see all yet I am blinded

My senses devoted to one thought

Darkness

Frozen air pierces my spine

Small needless hanging from my skin

Darkness

A voice calls out to me

I am helpless to escape

Darkness

Breathe in her pollen

as you divulge your soul

to the keeper of a garden,

your garden.

She, the beekeeper,

listens and accepts,

but hidden in her hive lies

a wasp.

Fear: an imagined emotion to distract our human minds from making the necessary change in order to exist in the present moment; a strained imagination ready to take control at any moment.

We are born with only two fears: Loud Noises and Falling.

Deductively then, all other fear is man-made.

Fear is a deadly train ride

The first stop is dread

The next stop is agitation

Once we're underway again we meet trepidation

But this doesn't stop us from gripping frights hands

Once it has a grip on us we run into fright

Last stop is terror, before we exit

Fear is an utter abstraction

To describe it would take more words 

than all the stars in the sky

and all the grains of sand on a beach

words? Hah.

Words are useless when it comes to instinct.

I cower in the crevice

  within my mind

The world outside dark

As ebony

Laughing at my

Weakness

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Fear is a monster we create.

Birthed by our minds.

Cultivated by our insecurities.

Maintained by our acceptance of it.

Thriving by hiding and waiting

For the perfect moment to reappear.

Thirty-one words, to be exact.