All I hear is my heart

Dim but fast

Like footsteps

Fleeing into silence

Silhouettes speak

Noises sharpen

Into monsters

Darkness suffocates

And crawls

Like small spiders

The blankets offer

Little comfort

Against

My nightmares

--

The plague of our minds is the darkness that we can't find our way through. We are lost and blind and confused in the tangles of those dark recesses of our own thoughts. The part of our head and our imagination that we ignore. The part that only lives in our dreams. What we are and what we know is malleable in the subconscious of every human, for in our dreams the laws of everything become ours to manipulate and in the face of such power Mr. Hyde loves to take over.

Sweet dreams.

Let's take a minute to talk about our fears.
(feel free to share your own fears/philosophy on fear in the comments or on your own blog)

We all have a set of shallow fears. Spiders, the dentist, mosquitoes, etc.

But I want to talk about deeper fears.
The fall of oblivion when we pass on. Our bodies decaying not in the ground, but while we are still living.
(mostly)
The fear that someone we might or might not know holds our fragile soul in their hands and has the power to tear it in two.

The fear of regret, of the Might Have Beens.

The fear that we are truly unloved by those we hold close to our hearts.

The fear of the monsters in our heads.

The fear of being forgotten.
The fear of forgetting.

The fear of our fears.
Of being afraid
Of weaknesses
Like fear.

Sometimes I feel like I am ruled by those fears as if they dictate my life. That scares me too. I'm afraid of all these things, and I will admit it. I'm afraid of love, regret, loss, afraid of being forgotten. I'm afraid of the future, just like everyone else in highschool.

I'm afraid of being human.
But isn't that what makes me so human after all?