---
title: Fears
date: 2026-01-03
draft: false
slug: fears
lang: en
tags:
  - Poetry
  - Poem
  - Poems
  - Lyric poetry
  - Poesía
  - Poema
  - Fear
author:
  name: "Denny K. Schuldt"
---

# Fears

I started 2025 by wishing, with my poem Lovestruck.
Now I start 2026 by facing, with my poem Fears.

***

I’m tired of wine,
for it reveals part of my truth.
A singular mind caged on itself,
rethinking his youth.

Why did I do that?
Why didn’t I respond?
Unanswered questions,
it’s been a long run.

Subconscious is a mystery,
governed by its own.
But mind can be tamed,
polished, owned.

Fears are a constant in my life’s equation,
in every integration, one step at a time.
Always appears, regardless of the theorem.
All things apart, fear costs more than a dime.

Sometimes I feel too soft for this world:
ruthless, aggressive, with potential to harm.
Hence the fear that it’s there,
for not bending my arm.

Do not mistake fear for insecurity,
for that’s not the case.
The root cause is the unpredictable,
entropy is really the base.

I want to express this feeling with the heart of Pizarnik’s,
Grabbing the pieces through Sabines’ ink.
However this is me, these are my fears,
At the end of this day, it is Schuldt who feels.

***

Copyright © Denny K. Schuldt 2026