Words:
Key
Keys can both lock and unlock.
A key can decipher a map.
Key is a three letter word.
Rest is the key to happiness.
Keys wind clockwork.
The mechanism is useless without the key piece.
Fear
Fear and excitement feel physically similar.
Faithless said ‘fear is a weapon of mass destruction’.
Fear is not the antonym of courage, but of action.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Fear is the cause of the fight, flight, freeze or faun response.
Swap
Fear can both lock and unlock.
Fear can decipher a map.
Fear is a three letter word.
Rest is the fear of happiness.
Fear winds clockwork.
The mechanism is useless without the fear piece.
Keys and excitement feel physically similar.
Faithless said ‘keys are a weapon of mass destruction’.
Keys are not the antonym of courage, but of action.
Feel the key and do it anyway.
Keys are the cause of the fight, flight, freeze or fawn response.
Secret Truth:
The Door
Keys and excitement
feel physically similar.
Both are hard – they are
lumpen things
which stick
and clang.
Like a key, fear
winds clockwork –
twisting a coil deep
within tighter
and tighter until.
Frozen.
Waiting for
Flight.
Sudden action.
A door once locked
is unlocked
And fearless
we pass through.
Fran Moldaschl is a prize-winning author and an archaeology student at the University of Aberdeen. She is particularly interested in the Anglo Saxons and the Picts, and tries to work as much of the Ancient North into her writing as possible. She is passionate about early years literature, history, and linguistics. Between her garden and the archaeology trenches, she spends far too much time playing in the mud