Fear Poem by Apoorva Kapur

Alone I was in this ungrateful life,
I feared this world would leave me on a knife.
My tears day by day had turned into blood,
I feared that I might fall down with a thud.
My life turned out to be a thin rope,
Not even a single sign of hope.
On one side is a deadly chasm, on the other a vast ocean,
My nerve and sinew in a paralysis – incapable of motion.
Every second, every moment I had to suffer,
I had even given up trying to be tougher,
Suffocating, hesitating,
I spent each hour waiting.
Oh that cruel love – snatched away from me,
I could not escape this despair, no matter how much I tried to flee.
Year by year my wounds got deeper,
Its venom I could not spit either.
I started thinking evil, I started thinking bad,
I was drowned in fear like a person mad.
I became a lifeless body, without a beating heart,
I was no longer a human, I became a devil smart.