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The Fear

February 15, 2016
By Anonymous

Drifting off into our sleep

Or is it the cold hands of death

Reaching out to have us buried

Filled is my mind with this terror

Filled is my mind with this unknown

Will it bring savation or regret?

 

No I refuse to die with regret

The dark sleep

It can not cure the unknown

So bring on this challenge called death

My mind slowly losing the terror

Strong will be my soul when I am buried

 

I will survive after I am buried

It will not leave me with my regret

Soon my body will be free of this terror

I will walk proudly into this sleep

I will conquer this death

I will learn the unknown

 

Now all I see is the unknown

With me it will be buried

Down into death

I will leave on earth my regret

And turn away this sleep

For it brings only terror

 

Leave me now with my terror

A battle I must face with the unknown

If won I shall forever evade this sleep

Never to be buried

I shall hide from my regret

And defeated is my powerful enemy death

 

Will I fight agian with death?

Will it fill me with a new terror?

Shall I once again form regret?

I now see a new unknown

Have I been buried?

Am I to truly know this sleep?


The author's comments:


This is a sestina about how death is seen differently. Some are fearful and are constantly worrying about when and where it will happen. Some believe it never will. Some think that there is something after death and some don't. This poem's goal is to capture those different view points and put them into a light that everyone can understand.


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