What
Is fear?
Fear is sitting,
Naively, with your
Back to your fancy
Now that he has seen
How you feel about him
And he has, rather publicly
Objected to the thought of
The two of you going to the
Dance
Together
Even worse is
He is clearly interested
In someone else, someone
Prettier and more popular, cooler
Fear is
Sitting with
Your back to your
Crush and his crush, who
Likes him too and knows that
You have a crush on him too openly
Fear is
Not knowing
What they might
Say about you now
Not that you care since
You know that it is something
Dumb to care about for some strange
Reason, you still do.