Fear

It trespasses into your room as you sleep. You hear a noise and it wakes you. Dark shadows on the wall as the clock keeps on moving forward. 

It grips you and strangles you as you fight to breathe...thrusts its fist of emotions through your throat, tugging at your heart, poking into your lungs, leaving scars and permanent destruction. 

You dream and the shadow comes towards you - weapons in each hand and absent eyes. 

You shake, you shiver, you sweat and then you get cold again. 

You dream and the shadow screams into your ear that you will fail. 

You walk and the cracks in the sidewalk make you dizzy and cause you to feel you will fall. 

You live and your heart is broken - your filled with scar tissue from the whispers, screams and tears telling you to stop, to stop - the light is yellow, can you see it blinking?

It tries to protect you - but all it does is limit you. 

It tries to confine you but you must shake the chains of fear and watch them fall to the ground. 

Fear - an emotion born to protect but with a snowball effect cant destroy any hope or joy that fights through the realities that surround us. 

Can you imagine the terrifying vision of the executioner, toothless smiling and absent eyes, walking towards you, armed in both hands with weapons of destruction?

The executioner with a love that smothers you, wanting to protect you, to encircle you to keep you from harm, 

Break down the barriers that keep you safe from living and from harm. 

Fear, your lifeguard to keep you safe from harm - sometimes its the harm that is needed in order to be safe in life.