Fear

Life is fear, and fear unfolds,
Comes storming in your way.
The Great Destroyer; holds you back,
Chuckles at your sorrow.
If you could only hold a while,
Hang on 'till tomorrow.

Tomorrow never comes, and Fear is fine.
It knows your ins and outs.
Knows you'll never hang your fears,
Knows you'll always have doubts.

Cold and strong; as steel and ice,
Cripples and devastates,
And is never very nice.
Indecision, restlessness-
But cautionary and sane?
Enemy or friend?  
Truth is never plain.

Protects you from yourself,
And all your natural folly.
Mocking handicap;
Instigates melancholy.

©M.Botelho 2012