Fear Is My Captian

Fear is My Captain

How quick people forget you

Sad when they see you

You stand there alone

Waiting, crouching.

Watching

To catch us

The door stays knocking

You’re simple, pure, but complex my brain when you enter

Fear, when I see you, I fear you.

You're like a dream,

Endless with limitless possibilities.

Creeping up our spine with fluidity.

From darkness.

Like a drug, it enslaves us.

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies.

Fear is a Dream

You’ve changed people,

From the top to the bottom of life.

You’ve consumed me,

Constricting my heart,

Closing it tight,

Tears flow because our true fear is not being good enough for ourselves.

Our true fear is looking in a mirror and hating what we see,

But tears are no more,

I’m all cried dried.

Why am I so scared?

See fear and we see our future,

Don’t want help so we hide the fear

Slowly and Slowly we change.

But instead, we embrace you today

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past, that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave

I am the dreams and hopes of the forgotten slaves

But I do not forget

I am not sad

I used to spend my days fearing you, you tighten your grip on me,

You may tread me in the very dirt,

But like dust, I’ll rise.

Now I’m free.

Now I rejoice.

Now I break free and go forward.

I’ve met you with grace

I've fought for so long.

When will this ever end?

So many tears I have shed in the dark,

Hidden away in the privacy of my own thoughts

Only to be shelved by morning's first light

How quick we are to forget.