Fear

Fear is the drug inside us,  
Which all our bodies crave  
And just hate simultaneously,  
For it sends us to our graves.  

Fear is the beast in our hearts,  
For when it’s woken up,  
No thing controls its rampage,
And it charges over us.  

Fear is the silken shadow  
That lures us in with wit  
Before it swallows us alive  
With deadly skill and grit.  

Fear is the rush of winter  
Just underneath our skin;  
It cools us off at first, but then  
We’re frozen deep within.