Fear
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Aakriti Nandwani, Grade 12
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Poetry
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2020
It infiltrates my mind, silently
It stands between my life and my death
It feeds on uncertainty, the unknown
It fights against knowledge
Keeps me surrounded by walls of my own ignorance
It makes me
Weak, inconsiderate, cruel, selfish
Safe
It hinders understanding, possibility, change
Hope
It filters the images
Entering my eyes
It causes the grey to bleed
From my grey-scale world
Until I only see in black and white
It is the thing I fear most in the world