--- title: Veil of Fear date: 2010-06-15T09:48:00Z modified: 2014-06-10T12:45:44Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/fear-poem/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1257 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2014-06-10T12:45:44Z tags: - Life Poems --- the first day i saw you i feared i am not good enough for you the first [day](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/better-days-are-coming.md) we spoke i feared i would turn into a fool the day i said “i love you” i feared you would say no the day you went out of town i feared i would go mental the day we fought i feared we would never talk the day we slept [alone](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/you-are-never-alone.md) i feared i would sleep alone for the rest of my life the day i saw you with another man i feared i am not a better man the day we parted ways i feared i would never live again days turned into weeks weeks turned into months the days i feared i would never live again i forgot how to live standing before the mirror watching the scars slowly disappear the days i feared fear would took control of my [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/category/life.md) slowly faded away into memory stepping outside into this world once again walking with a new found energy i find you looking at me and i fear that you might be letting fear take control walking towards you i lean closer and whisper “fear not; don’t fear what happened (the past); rip out the [mask](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/without-a-mask.md) that you are wearing; come out from behind the veil of fear; take my hand and [walk with](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/come-walk-with-me-version-2.md) me; trust me, i am there for you; believe me ‘I Love You’;” ———————————– **note:** ‘you’ actually represents 2 different people. the first 25 lines represents a different person and the last 10 lines represents another “new” person :). In the first scenario, i feared. In the [second](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/second-chance.md) one, after i have overcome my fear, i find her (this new person) “engulfed” in the same fear. **Some nice quotes on fear:** _Japenese proverb_ Fear is only as deep as the mind allows. _Dostoyevsky_ Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. _Marilyn Manson_ One hates what one fears. _Bertrand Russell_ To [fear love is to fear life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/fear-life.md), and those who fear life are already three parts dead. _David Seabury_ Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair. _Louis E. Boone_ Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of [a life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-life.md) contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. _Anonymous_ Fear is the prison of the heart.