The One Thing Poem by Mary Jesusa Villegas

</>This is the one thing that makes me shiver
The one thing that is more frightening than
earthquakes and prophecy about
the end of the world and this is the
fear of the fool.
I listen to my despair
and my stomach violently lurched around
the pool of young words inside my heart.
I am scared to run out of these words and poetry.

What if my young words don't grow up
and eventually die?
What if one day my heart wears off
and my mind becomes ignorant
of the eternal place
where my pool of young and untouched words
are reserved in the middle of the rainbow after the
heavy storm?
I don't want to run out of these words and poetry.
I am scared.

This is the one thing that makes me shiver.