Fear is a fiction

of inferred reality

a novel idea

entirely imagined

not at all real

merely a projection

of one possibility

out of countless

and internalized

as likely

by a hubris calculus

a vaunted rationalization

disguised as logic

present but

uncomfortable

in your own skin.

Fear is a friction.

Get it off me!

Larry Piltz

Indian Cove

Austin, Texas

9/12/2014