Fear

Disguises abound —
fear masquerades as anger,
jealousy, greed, boasting,
low self-esteem or domination,
class clown or recluse.
Covered, buried, stuffed down
with addiction and compulsion,
fear prevails, broiling, roiling,
eroding life from within, never
really hidden, just masked
until ferreted out with honest
self-searching, routed by honest
self-seeing, with god as we grasp
that concept, and with a person
we expect to be repelled until
our naked souls find cover
and comfort with amazing love.