And how

Does thy heart

Pump blood

Throughout bodies

Throughout time

When fear is coming

Still beating

Throbbing

Faster

Harder

Fear

Once called

The most powerful emotion

Overtaking

Paralyzing

Over

The darkness

Fear cannot

Be expressed in words

i’m scared

i’m confused

save me

So breathtaking

When hearing them

From those you love

You must

Add feeling

Add emotion

That makes

Your stomach sink

And your heart

To beat

Faster,

Faster.

It must overtake you

When expressed

In the most simplest words

‘I’m scared, Ally, are the puppies gonna be okay? Is Air Bud gonna save them?’

Words of a four year old

Caring, compassion.

Is that fear?

Or is it

While breaking

‘please, is she gonna be okay?’

Writing

Them

Down

Doesn’t say

Anything.

But when staring

At

The face of a little girl

Only

Ten

Dissolved into tears

Clinging to her mother

Is that fear?
Would fear be

Your English teacher

Catching you talking

During a test

Is that pure

And simple

Fear?

Can fear be put into the words that say

‘Please, please don’t! Please don’t do this to me; don’t kill me, oh, God!’

Can that emotion

Be put into

A simple four letter word?

Overpowering.

Can a simple surprise

Like ‘BOO!’

And your heart

Immediately lurching

Falling

Be put into a sound

That is dropped around carelessly?

Can this writing

Be as much

As fear itself?

Fear.

One may look at it

As a few letters

But one may look at it

As an overpowering

Breathtaking

Brilliant emotion.

Some may see it as a definition

A simple description

An adrenaline rush

Or a movie

That was never reality

But what is fear?

No words

Can fully describe it

It’s as simple as reading a poem

But it’s complex

As the entire universe.