Saturday, 19 February 2022

A Poem a Day (496): Fissure

 
Fissure
 
Fear gets in your bones
like a fissure,
leaves you half the person,
an echo, a shadow.
 
Fear gets in your heart,
lodges in a safer place,
makes it harder to laugh,
harder to be you.
 
Fear makes each day
more precious still,
thinking it might be your last,
that the sun might not rise.
 
Fear is not your friend,
you’d rather it would leave,
but here it is, warning you
about the end.
 
Fear is someone watching you,
waiting for you to fall.
Your life isn’t what it was,
and can’t be now, at all.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, February 19, 2022
 
 
 


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