The Fear Factor
by Sara Holbrook (The Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, 2013)
I know you.
You.
Courage,
how you ask for what is mine.
How you swell in my chest,
speak up, straighten my spine,
and whisper in my ear,
Okay, you say.
Okay.
It’s going to be okay.
More than
the shoe, the step,
the doorknob turn.
More than a precipice.
A fall.
A burn.
I fear you will abandon me,
evaporate
and not return.
But every time,
when faced with
choice or change
it is your voice that
cuts through clouds of gray.
underline all the literary device: alliteration,personification,rhyme,repitition and magic of three.