Fear Frozen

Fear that cripples. Hope that regenerates...

 Fear Frozen 

Nick Gugliotti

 

Pain so intense

it coats the air

with crystal fragments

of crushed emotion--

frigid and vacant

 

Rolling in like unwelcome fog

 density bypassing my eyes;

 driving deeper until my soul quakes in

terrified blindness

 

Fear overcomes the future

with an overwhelming, now

and obliterates the past

with icy insecurity

 

Tears mark my face

contorting my eyes into

blood-red, streaming rivers

 unable to understand

 

unable to control

 

unable...

 

so unable

 

I am weakness personified

and nakedness engulfs me

Ruff-edged and unrelenting the cutting opens

a one-way passage to revelation

revelation that melts the fear away

 

 

 

 

A very un-natural,

Super-natural touch

 

Not examined 

Not understood

 

 

Received as a gift

delivered by the Spirit,

 

Warming my heart

and giving me courage

to chip the ice

and take

 

the next step...