a fool of FEAR.

I can feel raindrops forming between the palms of my hands,

Every vein;

Every t h u d.

I feel the thunder trying to survive my heaving chest creating a storm I’ve never experienced before…

A storm that held me captive

But nothing eases my departure

Encaptured by this striking beam of lightning that precedes my deterioration.

I have succumbed to the symptoms of FEAR:

Raindrops- showered by pools of sweat

Thunder- unsynchronized fluctuating breaths

Lightning- the irrational foreshadowing of destruction

And in the midst of this illusion…

I became a fool of a universe I created and called protection- ‘FEAR’