What is Fear? - Extract from the poetry book 'Apologies to an Existence' As I listened to a senior doctor in an interview who commented that fear and panic about the disease causes more damage to an individual while the medical part of the disease could be addressed, I realized that a number of friends known to me have become victims of the fear though they are very mature, experienced and wise ( some for very logical reasons and in some cases for reasons not well founded). My memories went back to 1992, when in my published poetry book titled “Apologies to an Existence’ I had dealt with several human emotions including fear. Here is an extract from the book detailing the impact of fear on human lfie.
What is fear?
An animus attempting
to unlock the doors of wisdom
and steal away one’s confidence.
That which spreads
its domain like an octopus
into one’s peaceful existence
consuming it
slowly and slowly.
Fears are ‘shadows’
skillfully painted by Satan
to disfigure man!
They pass through
the stillness of life
like the will-o-the wisp,
sometimes here,
sometimes there
chasing the man
day in and day out
till he passes through the life!
Fears are ‘cannibals’
and they eat their own flesh
in a suspicious mind!
They fertilize on
the sorrow’s soil,
and let the weeds of failure
grow in an insecure mind!
They live on
sympathy’s subsidy
and stacks on its shelf
doubts and suspicions
for a future shock!
In the fear’s clock
the hands go anticlockwise!
Hence, they write
the preamble to death
in a coward’s history!
To fear
is to surrender;
To fear
is to deny;
To fear
is to misconstrue;
To fear
is to negate our existence;
To fear
is to mistrust
His omnipresence!
(Extract from the poetry book Apologies to an Existence written by G.Balasubramanian and published in April 1992)
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