A Poem About Pursuing The Scary Things We “Want”
Alexi Pappas talks about the real scary things in life—the things we "want."
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Scary Things
The thing about scary things
like spiders
is that they do not scare me
nearly as much
as the things I want the most.
The want things creep and stay
live in my mind—
a much harder place to reach and find
cannot be killed
will grow instead
unlike the spider in my bed
the scary want inside my head
is not afraid
and will not flee
rather than boo
says come and get me.
