Fear, My Only Carol

fear you sit beside my fire glow in the glass candlelight trembles on the wall but you hold fast you are everything and nothing still you stay wrapped around my shaking hands on this holy day fear fear fear my only carol ring in every heart tonight fear fear fear my cold noel i will gift you to the world in lights they will see you they will know you well fear fear fear my bright hard bell ugly sweater cracked old mug still you fit me like the skin im in like a patient drug humanity keeps clinging to what it used to be we must kick the sleeping bones wake the buried seed someday everyone will know you fear i swear they will i will show them i will shout your name from every windowsill let them finish falling down past what theyve been only when the spine is broken can the soul begin again fear fear fear my only carol pour like church bells through the snow fear fear fear my cruel kind herald teaching us to break to grow you are everything and nothing still you sing through me fear fear fear my dark warm tree someday all will see you then no one at all when the world learns how to rise from the longest fall till that last bright morning its just you and me fear my secret christmas gift to all humanity