My Fear!

Dilemma

“What are you afraid of”? A little boy asked me just the other day.

“Nothing”, came my reply almost immediately. I was surprised he had asked.

After taking an inquisitive look at me, to my amazement, he asked, “What do you fear”?

Like sharp needles piercing the nape of my neck, my hair stood: he had asked the right question, and the answer was one I had tried in vain to outrun.