Fear is...
Location
A Cloud
Who looms on the horizon, threatening to blot out the sun
Or the moon
Or the stars
Or Heaven itself
Ever-present, ever unplanned,
It will always be there, always close at hand
A Fire
Whose smoke blots darkness so that it fills its victim's eyes
Or heart
Or mind
Or dreams
A shadow on the wall, a shiver down the spine
It makes worries and doubts of past and present intertwine
A Monster
He thrives in darkness and torments you from beneath the bed
Or with demeaning words
Or in the kitchen with another bottle of bourbon
Or condemning thousands to die for the hell of it
With his hand holding back your writhes and screams
He stifles your freedom and stifles your dreams
A Feeling
The worst of them all
It feeds off of you and makes you feel that you're being watched
Or followed
Or drowned
Or dead
Steered in a direction you involuntarily take
It will strip you bare and beat you until you break
Fear is a storm, a fire, a monster, a feeling
And were I Fear's keeper,
The clouds would thin
The fire would dim
The monster would forever be slew
And the feeling would nevermore inhibit you