Fear

I know the feeling,

It reaches out and holds you,

Controls you.

Lose the ability to act for yourself,

Do things unlike you.

While chained in the grasp of fear.

Taken steps toward mastering my fears,

But I still fear.

The same feeling that wraps me,

Encircles me when I stand looking down from a height.

That fear is the same thing that holds me now,

I try to master it.

To control it,

To fight against it.

So far only managed to weaken it,

But still I cannot always control the fear.