--- title: Fear of Life date: 2014-06-10T12:35:41Z modified: 2014-06-11T03:16:10Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/fear-life/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1550 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fear.jpg" featured_image_alt: Fear Poem author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2014-06-11T03:16:10Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![Fear Poem](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fear.jpg) I stare at the blank page, trying to write the thousand and one thoughts running through my mind; as i think to myself, about all that was, all that is and all that will be; fear takes over my senses, clouding my [thoughts](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/thoughts.md), fear of the [unknown](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-anxiety-of-the-unknown.md), fear of life; sometimes i want to [run](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/running-dark.md) away from this mad world, sometimes i wish i could do things differently, sometimes i wonder about a lot of things that i could [have done](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/look-what-you-have-done.md), sometimes i worry i might be thinking too much; i feel like floating in a deep dark void, eaten away from the insides, ripped and bleeding, desperately clinging on to life; exhausted and tired, giving up (on [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/seduction-of-life.md)) seems so easy, i close my eyes and drift off into darkness; ———————————————— “Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up” – Veronica Roth “When you do what you [fear](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/fear-of-loss.md) most, then you can do anything.” – Stephen Richards “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” – Paulo Coelho