#flaws - Hello Poetry

inspired by, for ~EvelynYiningChen~ who wrote https://hellopoetry.com/poems/5305604/the-night-phobic-im-pro-vising ~~ The term for the fear of phobias (or the fear of fear itself) is phobophobia <~> Nyctophobia (and the others, too) are an extreme, irrational fear of the dark or night-time, not necessarily a result of living in Nyc, (whew!) often stemming from a fear of the unknown or potential threats rather than darkness itself but! there are other practical phobias; If, you have in your possession, a childlike fear of monsters under the bed (teraphobia), serial killers in the closet (foniasophobia), werewolves at the door (lycanthrophobia) and ghosts, well, everywhere (phasmophobia) you are diagnoseable, and maybe a treatment is available, no joking matter, one takes your phobias most sincerely, me? nine or none, that I know of, the monsters in my closeted mind, are by now old familiar friends, their threats are customary fare, that govern my pseudo~sleeping hours and clumpy brackets or rest disrupted walk the house in a moonless deep country dark, a self~challenge to see if one can make it safely to the couch without k-nocking into obstacles that appear overnight, sensitized to the occasional gleams that portend danger ahead and self-mock my asinine, silly heroic efforts to keep the bright light of my Apple 12 cellphone locked, forgone, a male pretense of ouch! toughness… *** there are humans and therefore, there are flaws, and the flaws live along a continuum of silly to deadly seriously but if you can grin and learn bare & yet bear it, and still bewarey of it knowing that your rationality is superior, and of course, acknowledge it then perhaps someday, you will address them as: faux~be-~a~gone

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May 24

May 24, 2026 at 10:45 AM UTC

nat-lipstadt

Phobophobia (Fear of Fear): Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia or scotophobia

inspired by, for ~EvelynYiningChen~ who wrote https://hellopoetry.com/poems/5305604/the-night-phobic-im-pro-vising ~~ The term for the fear of phobias (or the fear of fear itself) is phobophobia <~> Nyctophobia (and the others, too) are an extreme, irrational fear of the dark or night-time, not necessarily a result of living in Nyc, (whew!) often stemming from a fear of the unknown or potential threats rather than darkness itself but! there are other practical phobias; If, you have in your possession, a childlike fear of monsters under the bed (teraphobia), serial killers in the closet (foniasophobia), werewolves at the door (lycanthrophobia) and ghosts, well, everywhere (phasmophobia) you are diagnoseable, and maybe a treatment is available, no joking matter, one takes your phobias most sincerely, me? nine or none, that I know of, the monsters in my closeted mind, are by now old familiar friends, their threats are customary fare, that govern my pseudo~sleeping hours and clumpy brackets or rest disrupted walk the house in a moonless deep country dark, a self~challenge to see if one can make it safely to the couch without k-nocking into obstacles that appear overnight, sensitized to the occasional gleams that portend danger ahead and self-mock my asinine, silly heroic efforts to keep the bright light of my Apple 12 cellphone locked, forgone, a male pretense of ouch! toughness… *** there are humans and therefore, there are flaws, and the flaws live along a continuum of silly to deadly seriously but if you can grin and learn bare & yet bear it, and still bewarey of it knowing that your rationality is superior, and of course, acknowledge it then perhaps someday, you will address them as: faux~be-~a~gone