#fear poems on Hello Poetry

polina 29m

Fires igniting all around,
Burning and destructive.
And they’re in my heart, too,
Burning through the outer layers,
All the way to the core of my fear.

Fear of losing this comfortable life,
This reality where I sit calmly, routinely
Eat in peace and barely check
The news. Where the air quality isn’t
A problem, and where all of this
Goes away.

I guess the core of the fear is this, isn’t it -
Losing the routine, the comfortable,
The mundane. Feeling scared for
Loved ones, even though I know
Nothing will happen, right?
It’s too far away (getting closer), right?

the los angeles fires are terrifying. please, can this all just go away?

#fire #la #losangeles #fear #naturaldisaster

Jeremy Betts 3h

~•§•~ Trading Blows ~•§•~

Find me in the shadows
A coward cowering behind broken windows
Reflecting shattered souls
Obsolete and useless
Like old Nintendos
Single celled amongst the minnows
Fear the stage, cancel shows
Tattered armor from the battles
No foundation,
Missing panels
When oh when
Will I get to chalk up a first win?
Who knows
I mean
Who knows?
Been trading blows
With good and evils
Gods and devil's
A perpetual looser revels
With a fat lip and broken nose
I lie about it so it still grows
As time slows
Behind a cold wind that blows
New highs
New lows
No,
Out of reach highs
Reoccurring lows
Kept on stepped on toes
A blade allows me to watch
Oxygen turn life from blue to red
As it flows
And drips off the edge
Of pointy elbows
Not caring where it goes
Never telling the secrets it knows

©2025

#shadows #broken #obsolete #useless #fear #battles #good #evil #god #devil

Tye 11h

Winds of Yesterday

There is a sweeping wind
Blowing over the hills,
From the tips of redwoods,
Down to the sage in the valley,
Looking to blow away the dust of today,
And bring in the ash of tomorrow.

#loss #climate #change #crisis #anxiety #fear #ruin

Zywa 14h

[ Pressure in my chest ]

Pressure in my chest:

it's happened before, I know --

nothing to worry!

Novel "Omstandigheden" ("Circumstances", 2020, Koos van Zomeren), page 220

Collection "Actively Passive"

#fear #disease

Tye 1d

World of Tomorrow

Everything is changing so fast,
And I’m just a speck of dirt,
On the foul tile floor,
Being swept into the bin.

My only hope is
To catch on a crack,
And get one more second
To soak it all in.

#change #life #sadness #depression #anxiety #fear #loss

Indigo Maroon 1d

Accidental Precognition

I'm beginning to think I can
predict the future.
Except, the weird thing is,
I do it
accidentally
without knowing
or trying.
These predictions happen
1-2 years before
the real-life event
takes place.
I only recognize the coincidence
when I reflect back

Usually, it is in the form of a song
or a daydream

I had a para who lost his mind
and now I may be losing
mine

I created a para who was
falling apart
completely,
right before I began to do the same.

I daydreamed about going home
And then, a couple months later, I discovered
I would, albeit briefly.
And when I arrived,
everything was the
same
as in my daydream,
even though I hadn't been back
since I was 6.

I found songs
years ago
that I loved
without knowing
why.

Listening to these songs now,
I realize I have become
them,
or they
have become
me.

Other little things like that,
some, I haven't even
noticed
yet.

Predictions.
Lots
of them.

But
as cool as it would be,
I hope I can't ACTUALLY
predict
the future.
Because if I could,
than I'm
in
huge
danger

But why is this actually really weird though?

#precognition #prediction #future #daydream #song #worry #paranoia #fear #uhh

David Hilburn 2d

Letting An Angel Out Of The Closet, With Death's Haunt

Add a gall, forth with a ghost
We dream a poetry in motion
Callous old candy, we favor for notice...
A place for spooks and terror, that has shared devotion?

Odd, the taste in popularity here...
Awake and see the form of our destruction
Sated forces that claim, the tow of a worldly fear
Silly old love, with a simpler friendship for you, a behavior and an intuition...

Creations of sin, in the mind's eye, a curiosity to foretell
Ancient we are, the prayers and decency of liberality, foresworn
With the lips of reality, to these we remember a wishy-washy hell...
Days have ended, with a voice to revile; we promise to dusk's forces...?

Tale of the dread, in the echo of a beautiful misery
Whether you are, or am I the passion of a better youth?
Coming of age, with the spare dream of a knowing, history
That turns out to be a campy nightmare, with a moment to rueth

The movie ends, with a phantom sneeze...
Coming from nowhere, and with a sensitive cloth
We see the role of sincerity reversed, a delicate lead
To a wishes house, where a mercy is the new future of wrath

Justice for quiet, the almost of silence served...
And broken with the shall we made, for a unique and tender
Friendship, of waiting and meaning the world, for a love to work
Like a running fool, in love with tomorrow, we see a prayer we lent to life for might's render...

of all, suffice seems to be a caring we avoid with abated breath, especially when the screams end and the movie lends time to more than a worldly clock set by dread...

#dreadfulness #fear #animosity #deliverance #prevention #friendliness

Tye 2d

Calling Hours

On this journey,
I’ll hold your hand,
And dip your toes in first,
So you don’t feel too much.

I’ll bring your yellow blanket
With the soft ridges, and
The coffee stain from
That Christmas.

No, I won’t forget to bring
The picture of your dad
In the garage, wearing blue Levi’s
During his last summer.

When the sun descends,
And rests just above the horizon,
I’ll sweep your brittle hair back,
And kiss your forehead.

With the orange glow
Bouncing off your eyes,
We’ll watch it disappear,
And soon be together again.

#love #loss #together #happiness #melancholy #fear #death

Wary 2d

Undefined fear

The day you called me by her name,
Fear took root in my heart—
A quiet dread of losing us,
Of love slipping into shadows.

I lost you, the day you called me by her name.

#lost #fear #love #him #her

inkedsolace 2d

monsters...?

i feared the monsters under the bed,
i feared the monsters that wept for me and said,
'the real monster is the one you've wed.'

//disclaimer: I AM NOT MARRIED
this was just a thought i had one day