Fear

You can pretend it's not there, but it keeps coming back; in the dark night, on the cold, hopeless drive to work, in the words you thought they just said to you, in the trip to the hospital, with the strange twinge in the chest, in the late-night rattle at the door. It keeps coming back to wipe that ignorant smile of your face. What to do? Align with the scripture? Non-dualize yourself into non-existence? What?