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FEAR— MY SUPERPOWER
<p>It’s a personality many recognise.<br/></p><p>A thick darkness that leaves many trembling.<br/></p><p>A darkness that doesn’t ask for permission before engulfing you.</p><p>When its message is not understood, it tightens its hold.</p><p>More pressure. More weight.</p><p>Until you’re breathless, frightened, desperate to make it stop.</p><p>You can’t turn a blind eye to it.<br/></p><p>Many have tried to banish it.<br/></p><p>But its existence cannot be erased.</p><p>A lot grit their teeth and shiver as it consumes them.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>But don’t throw it out the window.</p><p>It’s not a stranger. Let me have it.</p><p>Just when something unfamiliar comes knocking at my door, my dream</p><p>it comes unannounced.</p><p><br/></p><p>It tightens my preparation for the unfamiliar like an inspector with no intention of overlooking a single flaw.<br/></p><p>I stay awake through the night.<br/></p><p>I burn the candles until there is nothing left to burn.</p><p>Just when I’m about to relax,<br/></p><p>just when I’m tempted to settle for less,</p><p>it intensifies its pressure.</p><p>It pushes me out of comfort.<br/></p><p>It refuses to let me meet the unfamiliar with the same woman I was yesterday.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>It is the alarm that cannot be stopped. Cannot be snoozed. Cannot be silenced.</p><p>And I understand the message it comes bearing:<br/></p><p>Your present self cannot achieve this. Outgrow this woman.</p><p>So I do.</p><p>I prepare. I stretch. I learn. I become.</p><p><br/></p><p>And when the big day finally arrives,</p><p>my preparation meets the unfamiliar well.</p><p>The dream becomes real.</p><p>It becomes fulfilling.</p><p><br/></p><p>Everyone claps.</p><p>I get caught in the excitement.</p><p>For a moment, everything is loud with joy.</p><p>And then, it vanishes.</p><p>Before I can even turn around and say thank you.<br/></p><p>It leaves me alone with the woman it forced me to become.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>So don’t look at me weirdly.</p><p>I told you, It’s my superpower.</p><p><br/></p>
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