Fear
Omnipresent
I admit I am afraid —
Fear I have known
Faced and even embraced
The human fear of loss,
Of danger, of failure
Those natural fears
But now I tremble at the rise of hate
Intolerance flamed by those
Installed to lead and protect
Have left me desolate
A child again, defenseless
I cover my eyes
Centuries of fooled enlightenment
Concealed the evil sown in Eden
While lurking behind a veil of generations
Its amber eyes inflamed to red —
The signs furtively all-pervasive
Mushroomed between pustules of tyranny
And gangrenous genocide
The Second Coming, be it beast
Or our salvation? The Second Coming
Or the Apocalypse?
What is this specter slouching
Towards us, I beg?
Am I brave enough
To face those eyes of hate?
Targeting the known and unknown
How will I overcome my fears
And crush…
