How does fear start? <br />When we are so small, <br />Fear of being alone, <br />With our cries we call. <br /> <br />Then comes further fear, <br />Fear of things we can't see, <br />Fear of the dark, <br />“Please don’t leave me.” <br /> <br />Then comes more fear, <br />Fear of unacceptance, <br />Do they want to be my friend? <br />Will this fear ever end? <br /> <br />Then comes teenage fear, <br />Fear of growing up, <br />Is this all I will be? <br />Will anyone ever trust me? <br /> <br />We pass through, <br />So much fear, <br />We go through it, <br />Year after year. <br /> <br />In old age we come full cycle, <br />Fear in our old bones, <br />We return to the oldest fear, <br />'I don’t want to be alone.' <br /> <br />Finally fear of death, <br />Comes with our last breath, <br />And that's when one comes to see, <br />Fear is reality. <br /> <br />Fear is the biggest test, <br />It never lets us rest, <br />So don't give fear a chance, <br />To hold you in a trance. <br /> <br />Take it by its toe, <br />In your heart, open a window, <br />Throw fear out and you will see, <br />Once and for all you can truly be free.<br /><br />Aisha Sherazi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fear-6/
