If Life Was Like a Poem

I Am Afraid

I am afraid

I am afraid of dying

Yes

But who isn't?

Completely unknown

and mysterious

Something irreversible

And unchanged

Death

Permanent and certain

A destiny all meet

No matter how hard

One tries to run from it

The ending of our beginning

And the start to our finish

Beyond that finish line

Is covered in fog

To our unseeing eyes

I am afraid

I am afraid of living

Yes

Why aren't you?

Unjust judgements

Ridicule and presecution

Violence and issolation

A pariah of society

To be molded into conformity

A mask glued to skin

A painful

And lonely existance

One where truth and lies are one

As

The barriers ever vanish

In the dark

So I do admit it

I am afriad

I am afraid of dying

Yes

But even sadder still:

I am more afraid

of living