I Am Afraid Poem by Atef Ayadi

I am
Afraid
And this is my first time.
It is beautiful
To be afraid
Sometime.
I am heading to the top of the mountain
As it is heading down
Toward me.
I am afraid
Of the beautiful words,
The cold words,
The vulgar ones,
The warmer ones, and
The fastest and slowest ones.
I am afraid to be taken
By them
And become just a word.

I am afraid of the word
“Dream; ”
This my world.
I am afraid of
When the world
Becomes a word
What will happen to my dream?