Crippling Fear My fears are not a car crash As in they don't come, attack me, and take me by surprise like it did to the a school girl of Hiroshima on 9th August 1945. It's not like a blinding light that puts a blind on my existence's door My fears are like waves And I am like a dead body on a sea shore With fish like eyes that seem to have no life But it cannot close so it takes in all of its share of dread without a semblance of choice. The waves wash over me. I just lay indifferent, accepting the inevitable drowning and resurrection Like an unholy baptism in death Again and again To end up with a new life. I hate circles