Tehvitan Ibele

Fear

There lives a fear, many-faced, multi-formed within us all that feeds on all fears we possess--a fear that we may become, against our judgment and control, what we fear most.

It may behoove us to desperately wall our experience against our shores, or take our fear as a safeguard, or become it altogether.

However, the sea is wide, coercion is better put to other uses, and becoming it teaches us little of difficulty.

Carefully, we may accept our wickednesses, and choose those which we cannot live without.

Echo

And as I take the steps two by two up the gray walled staircase, walls upon walls of porous gray, plastic to the accidental brush, my echo behind me sounds a chariot's wheels, chasing quicker than I run, walling me in to where I myself confine.