When you’re scared, what do you feel?
Do you feel your teeth chatter involuntarily?
Or do you feel sweat stroking your forehead?
Do you feel alert and quick to react?
Or do you feel slow due to the heavy weight in your stomach?
Do you feel like you need the presence of someone?
Or do you feel like making solitude a companion?
Do you feel like you need to indulge in something that you love?
Or do you feel like nothing you do can make you feel better?
Do you feel like you momentarily stop breathing?
Or do you feel yourself registering your short, sharp breaths?
Do you feel yourself inclined to scream in terror?
Or do you feel too terrified to issue any sound?
Do you feel yourself tremble ceaselessly?
Or do you feel petrified, frozen, like you canβt even move a muscle?
When you’re scared, what do you feel?
~Nehal
This poem was my way of depicting how a person can feel two completely different emotions, at the same time, when they are scared. Though there are other ways to interpret it too. I hope you liked it. Let me know what you thought of it in the comments π.

Ahh! i read this poem on i guess a mag?
when you are scared everyone does different feels different. But certainly one out of these!
loved it!
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kunjal btw
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Yeahh, Nehal gave it in pannaga’s mag
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Yeah, I posted it for pannaga’s magazine once.
And yeah, true!
Thanks a lot!!
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Great poem dudee!
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Thanks a lot!
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π―hey this is a cool poem nehal! I love that all the lines are just questionsss
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Yeah exactly. Thats the key highlight.
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Thanks so much, Riya! π
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So I saw Kunjal had already commented on the post… but i had to say it as well… beautiful poemmm…..
Regards
Khushi ( DuoDisseminators)
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Ohh, that is so nice, thanks a lot, Khushi!!!!
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When I’m scared, I feel *looks around* shhhh don’t say this to anyone but I feel ~scared~π
this poem was so beautiful that my soul split and went to five different dimensions to just SCREAM ABOUT HOW LOVELY THIS ISβ¨π€©π₯Ί
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Oh, what a secret! And when I am scared, I try hanging upside down from the chandelier, really helps you know, you should try that sometime… π
And oh gosh, thanks so much haha!!
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Cool poem mistress apple!
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Thank you ak17 π
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When I’m scared, I can practically hear my inner thoughts just jumping around here and there as if they’re some sort of an actual person. Oh, and I get super jumpy to π π
Lovely poem as always!
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It’s like how you hear thoughts of a character in a movie, right? Basically that feeling I’m trying to describe
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Ohh yeah, I see. Like Monica’s inner struggle when she can’t decide if she should go get the shoes or not π.
Have you watched friends?Did you get the reference?
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Uh…..I watch friends occasionally. I think I might’ve gotten the reference π
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Cooool
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Ooh, that sounds like something that would happen! I can’t remember if it ever happened to me though…my memory kinda sucks π.
And thanks a lot, ss!!
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You’re welcome!
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Felt all of the above from time to time
Very well written π
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Ohhhh.
Thanks a lot, di π₯°
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THIS. IS. SO. AWESOME.
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THANK. YOU. SO. MUCH!!
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I’ve definitely felt all of these at some point! Great poem, Nehal! π
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Thanks a bunch, Naemi π
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I have gone through all of these emotions before my accounts examππ
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Gosh, exams do that to kids don’t they π€£
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Yup. Every damn timeπ
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i liked it soo much nehal!!! πβ€
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Thanks a lot, nushhe π.
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No problem! how are you doing? π
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I’m good, what about you?
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I am also doing great, took me a long time to comeback on WPβ£
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Yeah, studies affected probably?
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yep… and i ran out of ideas oof π₯
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Happens happens, good to have you back!
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This is intresting!
If I ever write about this topic, I would love to use this poem (with your permission off-course).
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Thanks a lot!
Sure, just give the credits π.
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