Short Stories and Poems

An Argument Between Life and Fear

Sometimes life can be so hard.

It can seem like you are alone, even though you're not.

Sometimes, it feels better to be alone.

Being sad seems so much better than being overwhelmed.

It seems better than the never-ending noise.

That is what sentences are like.

They can be sad, and sometimes, they can seem straightforward.

Questions are unstable.

They are riddles without answers.

They cause stress by asking people to answer them.

Maybe sometimes, people don't want to answer them.

They don't want to deal with it.

They just want peace.

They want truthful sentences.

They want the answers given to them.

They don't want to have to think.

Sometimes, thinking is a good thing, though.

Thinking can solve problems, just as fast as it can cause them.

Thinking can justify things that don't make sense.

Thinking can confuse things that seem shallow.

Thinking can make messes.

They are messes that only thinking can clean up.

But questions are unstable.

They question things that we shouldn't question.

They make us step outside of our comfort zone.

They make us panic when we don't know how to solve them.

Each side should be thought on though.

Sentences can take away the freedom that questions allow.

Questions can take away the stability that sentences keep.

A sentence is just a plain statement.

Sometimes people want plain statements.

It makes them feel safe.

People should stop keeping to the safe side.

But people don't want to get hurt.

Those people need to see what it is like for themselves.

They don't know how.

Then they can learn.

They don't want to learn.

Some people do.

But some people don't.

It scares them.

They want to stay safe.

Questions don't hurt people.

I say they do.

You have never questioned anything, you don't know.

I have seen other people question things, I do know.

You are being presumptuous.

I am being realistic.

You are making the rules.

I am.

You won't allow other people to make the rules.

I know better.

You know better because you say you do.

I say I do because I know.

You are fear.

I am safety.

No, You are fear, and I am life.

You are afraid of me, and you tell other people to be afraid of me.

I tell other people not to follow what they don't know.

You don't know me either.

Exactly.

You never gave me a chance.

I've never wanted to.

Because you're scared.

Because I'm safe.

Because you don't know.

Of course I don't.

Then let other people know me.

They don't want to.

They don't want to because you are scaring them.

I am telling them the truth by giving them statements.

I give them statements.

No, you scare them, you also give them questions.

You also give them questions.

I do not!

Yes, you do.

Isn't fear just a bunch of questions that insist they're truthful statements?