Thanatophobic Thoughts

• Callum Brookes, Grade 7, Pimpama State Secondary College
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Word Zone 2016' competition

Those who think they know me; who think they understand,
To me, in my opinion; their knowledge is quite bland.
They can’t comprehend it; couldn’t if they tried,
Only those who have it; understand it makes you blind.
The beauty of the world it takes; the joy it does pervert,
My memories are grey and dull; so I wish it could all revert.
I would face it if I could; embrace my fears as I should,
But to do so would be in itself; my greatest fear understood.
I fear the start of all fear; the end of the caring light,
The start of the endless dark; the beginning of all blight.
It doesn’t even make sense; fearing what I can’t avoid,
What I can’t begin to understand; the endless incomprehensible void.
The end is what I fear; the eternity, devoid of existence,
To simply cease to be as I am; Death I do fear, and I can not receive assistance.