POEMS

Fear.

Fear. Driven by adrenaline, the human body can withstand immense amounts of stress, anxiety, and fear. However, there is a threshold where the human body will cave in on itself, a form of self-destruction, and will freeze at the sight of danger rather than rise against. This fear paralyzes your veins and liquifies your guts, working its way outside, your hands becoming numb and shaking with a feeling of terror you will never forget. Fear is one of the most traumatic things a human being will ever go through and some people out there are lucky enough to never have fear imprinted into their blood, their neurons, their DNA. My body is coated in adrenaline, fear of the human touch and those I am not familiar with. The fear I experienced caused my body to collapse into itself, my organs inflamed with the same chemical that caused this to happen in the first place; the same chemical that made me collapse and cry, and scream, and freeze, and be hurt. The same chemical that can save me from the hands of death forced my brain to crave death and pain. This chemical, this adrenaline, breaks down everything within the human body, for some people, and the lucky ones will never understand. The feeling of being frozen in a time of fear will be the most traumatized you will ever be, especially if you are the one being hurt.