Fear

A little fear can well be healthy

If instinct is what you go by

Add in prejudice and anger

Turn it into a witches' brew

 

If only everyone was a little more naïve

For if we were all a little more like children,

Open and clean of preconceptions,

Hate would be hard to find

It's only in the mind.

 

And when you realize your point of view

Is molded by society and the fear planted in you

Does it not make you want to scream,

Find the voice that expressed it's anger but to a scapegoat for so long?

 

We all have different fears

We all have different outlets

Everyone's afraid sometimes

And it's never easy to point the finger

At the mind behind the eyes

that misconcept the anger

 

I bleed the same way as you do

My tears leave the same bad taste as yours do

My muscles ache after a hard day, too

I too, feel afraid sometimes, as do you

 

My body responds to the same things yours does

My heart beats just like everyone else's

I too fall in love, and get it broken

And I too sometimes fail to find the words that need to be spoken

 

Four letters, fear, mix it up and add in change

Wouldn't we all rather be free?

Instead of raising anger, raise tomorrow

To be the day we stop being afraid

The day we stop pointing the blame