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Bailey Lewis Jan 2015
I'm afraid of heights
But I'd fall for you
Tatiana Jan 2015
This is going to be a tricky one.
I am a proud individual
who does not like to admit certain... weaknesses.
But since I am sure you all won't judge me
I think I can do this.
Right, okay.

I have a fear of the dark.
(Pause for laughter.)
I am so ashamed of that one.
I have these little purple lights that are around my bed
so I never have to sleep in the dark.
But, for some reason,
I am not afraid of the dark when i'm in the woods.
I think that's quite strange.
But when i'm in my room
and it's dark,
I am terrified.

I have a fear of being alone.
I absolutely do not like it when I am home alone
for more than a couple of hours.
It's unnerving.
I just sit on my couch worried out of my mind.
My brain goes into over drive
and somewhere in the course of three hours
I have convinced myself that,
my parents died in a car accident,
that my niece and nephews were kidnapped,
that my brother got critically injured from his game
that my sister got killed in a school shooting
and that my other sister is too far away
and I don't know what happened to her.
It's unnecessarily stressful
and I just assume that I will be all alone.

I have a fear of the future.
Or maybe this one is more of the 'unknown'
It doesn't excite me when I don't know anything,
it scares me.

I have a fear of dark, empty streets.
Why? Because anything can happen there,
absolutely anything.

I have a fear of the supernatural.
(Which I firmly believe in).
That's pretty self explanatory,
and the reason as to why I don't watch horror movies.
...
I'm going to stop there.
Well, actually, I have one more that I am overcoming...

I have a fear of heights.
Now physically, I can climb almost anything
and I will be okay.
But figuratively...

Why do I set lofty goals
when I am still afraid of heights?

*To be continued...
This was a long one. Heights was my biggest fear, but now i'm pretty sure it's loneliness, as to the fact that I am lonely where I live.
Taylor Prince Dec 2014
You lead me to the top of the tallest tower,
To show me how far we would fall.
And usually I’m afraid of heights, but now I’m not scared at all.
The wind at this summit softly whistles,
Such a strong sturdy breeze.
It carries your sweet scent my direction,
Now I’m drunk from the airborne disease.
It begins the intoxication,
And then its work is through.
But the other elements are waiting their turn,
They have important tasks too.
From the rooftop the stars twinkle brighter,
The spotlights turned on for the show.
And the one to the north takes a look at itself,
The blue of his eye where it glows.
Then the sleepy mind senses its next,
Because it perceived the spark.
And the contented stars smile down and gloat,
They know they've left their marks.
Conduits connect quickly, electricity rushes through.
A cold heart has been resuscitated, to perform the job it was made to do.
It pushes warmth into your fingertips,
It blushes the tops of your cheeks.
The adrenaline that it produces,
Gives you the bravery to move your feet.
Swan dive off the balcony, pulling him down as you go.
“Where are you taking me?” he asks.
You reply with a smile, “I don’t know.”
And the clouds panicked at the risky plunge,
As they watched you make the fall.
So they floated underneath you both,
A soft landing, once and for all.
As you both fell in the safety net,
The real destination you knew.
You breathless whisper could barely be heard,
Bec Dec 2014
I was so happy,
so high.
And just as I looked down,
I remembered my fear of heights
and I forgot how to land.
i go through spells where i'm unbelievably happy and then my anxiety comes on full force and i can't seem to figure out how to deal with it
Michelle Garcia Nov 2014
i am the type of girl who is afraid of looking down
who shuts her eyes in glass elevators
and fears heights almost as much
as she fears herself

and the moment i met you was the moment
i decided to loosen my death grip,
realizing that i was exhausted of clinging to my high hopes,
suddenly feeling weightless, fearless,
flying away from the stranger i used to be,
flying away from the person i was
before i met you

they teach us poetry in school,
the kind we read in those dumb literature books
filled with stupid stanzas and rhymes
and words on paper made to make you feel something

i know you're not made of paper, and that
you aren't words or letters or rhymes
but you were the first person who made me feel something,
something so real, something so catastrophically alive
and i love you for that,
for being my favorite poem

i love you to the rooftops and to the skyscrapers and clouds
and i know i'll always have to keep my eyes shut tightly
and have to hold your hand so tight my knuckles turn white
but you are poetry,
you made me feel alive again

i wasn't afraid of heights,
i was afraid of falling
but you caught me anyway
and i love you for that,
for teaching me that falling doesn't always
have to hurt
Sometimes to utter the sounds
of love back as an echo hurts.
It hurts as your silence
sits at the edge of a hurricane.
Slowly swallowing every part of
your joints till you stumble in weakness.

Your agony-an unending chaos,
Like your beating heart-
Your chest rises and falls like the waves
in the midst of twilight,
as you breathe just to feel alive.
You belong nowhere,
Yet you run and bump into the wild unknowns.
Sometimes, you are like the forest fire,
adding fiery red to the tranquil greenery.
Dawns comes by quickly
in the world you live in-
where you wipe off that colorful mask
and declare you are just a blank  masterpiece.

These insecurities-defines darkness inside out.
Born with every broken nerves,
and sometimes with newly found scars.
They burn and heal from far,
as I build these high towers of mine.
You see lover, to be a wanderer
I have to spell freedom with my own breath.
So don't hold me down,
Let me fly.
Even if you can't be there
to hold me tight,
at least watch how I fall
from great heights.
Poetic T Nov 2014
I hold onto life I am not
Ready for that moment
I wish not to meet my maker
Life,
Death,
Nothing
That interests me on the
Other side of death,
What do I gain from the departed
Way of life,
Enlightenment,
Clean slate,
Wings
That I wish not,
"I'M SCARED OF HEGHTS"
I will live each day as if another doesn't exist
I hold on, I scratch at each breath,
My body is useless to me
I *** in a bag, my food is mush,
But that doesn't mean for a
Second,
Minute,
Moments
Pass, but I will survive till mornings light
I will not surrender a breath
To the taker, to death
I have fight left in this shell
In this place I call life,
I breath once more, take in all around
For one more maybe my last,
I will continue the fight,
Never easy will I go holding onto my *life...
shyshai Aug 2014
I wanted to face a fear.
So I scooted myself closer to the railing of this 420 foot high bridge
& forced myself to look over the edge
Telling myself that this fear was irrational,
But the longer I sat there the more the anticipation grew in my chest, the more I could feel my body betraying my mind, images flashed of me being thrown over the edge by my sadistic thoughts.
Some part of me wanted to free fall into the rushing water & the sharp jagged rocks below
A part of me I don't like to hear
"This is real."
All the years of telling myself I was scared of heights,
When really I am only scared of myself.
I just had this intense realization standing on this high steel bridge some people dragged me to.
Ann M Johnson Aug 2014
When climbing to great heights, I think don't look down.
I am not fond of heights but getting better dealing with it.
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