07 September 2023

"Fear came first"

 Fear came first.

Fear was the first to accrete out
                    of the waste of nothingness, out of the darkness.

And fear is still here. Will it always be here?
                    And I wonder: when shall fear die?

When I exhaled my first breath,
                    when I spoke my first word:

It was fear that greeted me.

Fear is the most heinous of things,
                    the most insidious of lifelings.

I did not know that fear came first
                    until fear constricted me.


                                 — M.M.

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