'what do you fear?'

i fear responsibility.  i fear fame.  i fear letting people die who
believe that i will not let them die.  i fear my father.  i fear my own
power to love more than is strictly wise.  i fear being alone, and i fear
being trapped with other people, and i fear being abandoned, and i fear
fear itself.  i fear questions without answers, answers without questions,
deaths without reasons.  i fear showing up in court and realizing that i
have forgotten to wear clothes, so that people will point and laugh.  i
fear deep water and not the things that swim in it.
                                                        i fear myself.

i fear that when the eye of god
                                opens
        i will introduce myself and say,
        to the only stranger i fear,
        if it weren't for you i never would have found out      who
                                                                i
                                                                am.

i fear that i have already done this.
        i fear that i have already gone that far with you
                                                        my brother.
        i fear that i went in and the water was
                                                  not
                                                        nice.
 

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