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Articles with tag: fear

About Death

Ali Rizvi   Nov 16, 2007   interacts: 5

When uncertainty dances with your fears, then know this that tragedy has collected its toll

A Silent World

Tooba Shah   Oct 12, 2007

There are bodies strewn as far as the eye can see. Are they amongst these dispersed corpses? No! I quell all such thoughts. To be certain, I now start looking carefully.

Voices from the Other Side

farrukh kamrani   Dec 1, 2006   interacts: 2

It frightens me in the silence of dying nights.
It frightens me when my wife retreats to sleep,
When run to school my children plodding and pale

The Modern Bogeyman

Shandana Minhas   Nov 14, 2006   interacts: 28

Suited sadomasochists, persistent forces of nature, varied forms of organic degradation…our fascinations are becoming increasingly morbid. Instead of fearing nothing but God, we fear everything but God.

Affright

Ali Hasan Cemendtaur   Jul 18, 2004   interacts: 6

'What did you call me?' he asked, with some fury.
What did I call him? I didn’t call him anything. I just said hello.

Cast Away Fear

nida Qureshi   Jun 28, 2004   interacts: 7

I was not trying to kill myself, I was just running after the sun, I was trying to save it from drowning

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