Fear

It blankets me in a shroud of doubt,

Like a dense, impenetrable fog it blinds me,

It takes away all reason and coherence,

Fear is something I fear...

It makes me feel as though

All that I knew to be so infallibly right,

To be so erroneous, all so fallacious,

As if they were nothing but

Misconstrued fabrications of my mind.

It clogs my faculty of lucid thought,

And leaves me in obscuring qualm.

When caught in the perilous snare of fear,

I know nothing, and am sure about nothing.

Leap of Faith

Falling curtains, closing doors,
Dispersed molecules of affable pandemonium,
Pushed back, further away into my impalpable past,
And I stare into that dark nothingness.

Time stood still within me,
Every second loitering with deliberate slackness,
While around and outside of me,
The world and its beings moved in fast-forward.

And then I tore me eyes away...
Away from that ineffectual, elapsed ago,
I looked around me now, at this moment,
And the world smiled at me.

I stepped forward into real time,
And open doors of smiling faces invited me,
Curtains of countless opportunities lift ahead of me,
All it took was just another leap of faith...