What Price Fear

Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)



What price fear?
What can live in its frozen grip?
Not love, not joy, not honesty, nothing pure can slip.
What price fear?
That beast beneath the bed,
the heavy trudge ,the bitter grudge,
the dead silence of things that needed said.
What price fear?
everything and all held dear.
Life itself the price of fear.
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Written on April 10, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on April 10, 2024

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Scheme AbbAcdcAaa
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 311
Words 65
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

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