Day 282: Things to Fear

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when i was young
i’m sure i feared things
for their possibility:

 

monsters – they might exist.

heights – i could fall.

dark – i might get lost.

 

but after years of meeting monsters
and climbing
and jumping
and finding my way
back in the dark,

i think i’m more afraid
of things
that might NOT be.

 

like love.

 

what if it isn’t?
what if it really doesn’t survive?

 

God help me,
there is no thought
that chills me more.

 

i hope,

i hope

something like love
is hiding under the covers of me
and can be discovered
like a lost pet:

a little feral
and suspicious,
quite hungry
and disheveled,

but real,

please let it be real.

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