Naked Fear is a Wild Teacher
- Kateryna Derkach
- Jun 24
- 9 min read
The Wizard of Fears
I am a funny wizard of naked fears
Not really by a conscious choice
More by a dance of circumstances
Of experienced curiosity of our pain
Some disbelieve in the possibility
Of a peaceful, meaningful future
When you ask them directly why
They usually answer: the fear
Sometimes they own it, hold it
They look in their own mirrors
And sometimes they project it
On their dear or our humanity
Them. People are too coward
But I am bravely courageous
This is the story of a victim
Who is in a very deep denial
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The Power of Fear
The mastery of this armory
The manipulation of fears
Is the most powerful one
Since the beginning of time
If you are scared of something
This something is your weakness
This is what the other will use
To seduce you and to overpower
If you are not in factual control
If you can't transcend your fear
Your fear will become the system
Where your power is manipulated
Someone always has authority
Over your most profound fears
If this individual is not yourself
You might want to wonder who is
Who do you blame and judge
For being scared right now
Who in your opinion is evil
Well, this is who holds power
The one you fight and hate
Is the one who is in charge
Of holding your fear in love
Because it's them who own it
When you are scared of something
This something receives from you
Both information and your energy
Fear & Power are so interconnected
It's made from the same vibration
Power is the logical consequence
That comes as a sacred gratitude
To the one who welcomes the fear
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The Nature of Fear
Fear is such an intense emotion
Your nervous system going wild
Your mind becomes fast, furious
You evolve with it or you get stuck
Fear is often considered by us
As the sacred opposite of love
It sounds like there is a key bond
Between those intense feelings
A bond or wise interdependence
A symbiosis or just entangled
Brothers from the same mother
Or more like binary exclusive
Is it Love AND Fear
Or is it Love OR Fear
What is more accurate
Mutuality or exclusion
The pure mathematical logic
This is where we all ignore it
Emotions are smart, clever
They work in a clear formula
Each emotion is unique
It's a different recipe
You don't create sadness
With the same stuff as joy
You don't use the same process
To provoke the pure resentment
Or to play with proud jealousy
Or to make someone laugh a lot
Each emotion needs both
The primary raw resources
And the systemic process
To move it in shared space
Fear is a very special one
It's the threshold of survival
Fear is related to death
Psychological or any other
To transcend the ultimate fear
You need to be ready to let go
Of everything you consider you
To gain control over your roles
When you are too tightly attached
To one of your perceived costumes
This is usually where you will find
Your biggest fear having much fun
This will become your weakness
Your very fragile heel of Achilles
This is where the dark queen
Will have authority over you
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Fear as Child
You can see the fear like a baby
So vulnerable still, unprotected
It needs to be held in compassion
Either by you or your wise shadow
If you are not a decent parent
To your such innocent fears
Can't take care or give love
Your fears will get adopted
And who adopts abandoned fears?
The hungry ghosts of our naïve denial
The shadow systems we still pretend
Don't exist in our blessed pure light
Sometimes it's institutional networks
Sometimes it's other people's rage
Sometimes it's the very darkness
We've been taught to push away
Your fear becomes their power source
Your vulnerability feeds their strength
The baby you refused to tightly hold
Grows up in someone else's arms
And this new adoptive parent
Might not have your best interests
They might feed your fear with poison
Might teach it to bite your hand for revenge
This is how the innocent fear
Of a child who needs only love
Becomes the weapon of control
In the hands of those who loves us
The rest of this unfolding depends
On whom exactly becomes guardian
Who welcomes your soft fear in safety
Who becomes its selfless, loving parent
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The Shadow's Hunger
Your unconsciousness is much alive
Many exquisite things are happening
Your own darkness can have a body
And her life could depend on fears
Your naked fear is like the tasty food
To the one who loves you the most
If you manage to "kill" all of them
Your beloved might die of starving
Or something else might happen suddenly
The dear holder of your fear might wake up
And, when this unique context is triggered
Your darkness will bring you to hell with her
Not on purpose or cruel intention
But so both of you could survive
It's a choice: together in raw pain
Or separated forever in silly illusion
Some kill their fear without any mercy
To get an easy ticket to the promised skies
They chose the paradise of nice loneliness
Because they were too coward for love
They considered fear as evil
Who deserves to burn in hell
So, they started a new cold war
To destroy everyone who is scared
They were shaming the entire system
Who were feeding the "mean" fears
Who were providing helpful security
To their own vulnerable and lost parts
They might have had a loved one
Who needed the system to survive
But they have decided that heaven
Is more important than their life
They were cutting the caring hand
That was protecting their heavens
Instead of collaborating together
They got in a naive war with hell
But they had no idea about the naked truth
That space they called a real underworld
Was such a caring and perfect home
To the beings they loved the most
They have divided their soul in two
One very devoted and other horrifying
And they have decided to play a war
To see which one would win the battle
They thought that if they find a way
To officially destroy the "bad" half
Their soul would find divine wholeness
While searching in vain for their loved ones
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The Judges of Light
The type of selective compassion
Those pure light, ego-driven souls
The judges of the right righteousness
The ones with the self-proclaimed duty
Cruel duty to be the superior judges
Of what garbage should exist, or not
What should be shamed and feared
And what must be stupidly admired
Those interdimensional warriors
Who think they are responsible
To be chosen ones of the divine
To do a genocide to other humans
The real sad problem with our war
Is the fact that we are all losers
We "clean" both hell and heaven
And we create pure chaos in our now
Our shared reality is in-between both
It's neither all very dark nor only light
Our original soul is just split in halves
Our wish is to make them both happy
When there is a peaceful coherence
In both, our heavens and our hells
This Earth and our beautiful reality
Becomes even better than their sum
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The Community of Fear
The naked fear is a very tricky one
You need a lot of courage to go there
You also need a very solid community
Who can hold you in safe love and care
If you are with unconscious or scared beings
When you dare to transcend your deep fear
They might fragment your soul very badly
By shaming your essence just for existing
They might use their smart, so clever power
To project onto you their own deep suffering
They might abuse your innocence, your home
Simply to self-glorify their big messed-up egos
They might even pretend to be "family"
To be interested in your unique wisdom
Honoring your origin and your ancestors
While selling them bombs made with love
The selective love between good and bad
The one that destroys our dear humanity
This moral judgment of the righteousness
That naively forgets that "left" is useful too
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The Language of Division
Have you ever wondered about this
Your body has both, right and left side
None of them is more or less important
But, right is still a synonym of being "good"
Don't you find this a bit confusingly weird
To associate in your language and culture
The concept of morality to be one-sided
And it's your right side who is always right
The unconsciousness works in pure logic
It creates very predictable, clear patterns
Your brain makes interesting connections
With such random lexicology like this one
Your language and your governance
Are both interdependent, together
You create your culture with verbs
And this is what needs to be governed
But politics itself becomes the battlefield
When the very words we use to understand
Are already divided, and already weaponized
Already teaching us to choose a polarised side
The right and left division exists
In most of the countries by now
But this is just one small reflection
Of something far more ancient, deep
Look closer at the pattern emerging here
See how it spreads like thunder in fractals
Every concept splits in perfect, same halves
Every truth demands its rival opposite polarity
The mind that learns to fear one side
Will find division everywhere it looks
Until the whole world becomes a war
Between this and that, us and them
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The Great Divisions
It's old vs new
It's right vs left
It's East vs West
It's heart vs brain
It's innovation vs tradition
It's Occidental vs Oriental
It's communism vs capitalism
It's individuality vs our collective
It's God vs humans
It's woman vs man
It's shame vs love
It's future vs past
It's war vs peace
It's reason vs logic
It's science vs nature
It's politics vs economy
It's poor vs noble
It's heaven vs hell
It's master vs slave
It's victim vs abuser
It's good vs bad
It's saint vs evil
It's white vs black
It's shadow vs light
It's mono- vs poly-
It's private vs public
It's humanity vs system
It's destruction vs creation
Each VS above lives in a human heart
Each division exists in someone's soul
We carry daily all these wars inside us
Then wonder why the life feels crazy
When millions of us dream around
With heaven and hell at war within
Is it any surprise our planet might
Reflect this inner violence back?
The personally intimate becomes political
The psychological becomes geological
What we do to our own wholeness
We inevitably offer to our Earth
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The Earth's Body
Do you see now how far we could adventure
Do you understand what this truly means
No one will be winning this kind of war
You can only reconcile and forgive
This planet is like your body
It also has right and left side
It has organs, it has systems
They all are necessary to exist
Some countries are its lungs
Some forests are its bones
Some cultures are its liver
Some tribes are its heart
If the Earth was alive being
She would probably desire
To have a body in coherence
Where its cells are not fighting
But we, such arrogant humans
What are we doing right now?
We literally play with bombs
To decide which half to keep
And the Earth divided and torn apart
Is so confused, in such deep sorrow
She doesn't understand the real why
Her children are destroying her body
How do they think they will survive
If the one who nurtures their life
Is missing half of organs, is so sick
Maybe they think that money tastes good
With an appropriate amount of nutrients
When it would be the only food they have
Because our Nature is unable to feed them
Maybe they think that robots
Would start shitting vegetables
Maybe they think that meta virtual
Is full of beautiful and tasty gardens
Maybe they also think that AI
Is all-knowing new perfect God
That she for sure will save them
By telling our Nature to be nicer
Or maybe they are essentially scared
They only want to love and be loved
But they have no idea how to ask it
Without being very terrified to death
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The Return to Wholeness
And so, we come full circle again
Back to where this poem began
I am a funny wizard of naked fears
But now perhaps you understand why
The wizardry is not in magic tricks
Or in pretending fear doesn't exist
The wizardry is in learning to dance
With the terror that makes us human
The wizardry is in fiercely refusing to choose
Between heaven and hell or light and dark
The wizardry is in holding it all with love
In the tender embrace of wholeness
Queen of Fear is indeed a wild teacher
She will show you every edgy riven
Every place you've drawn a line
Between acceptable and not
She will take you to the raw limits
Of everything you think you are, was
And ask you playfully: "Are you ready
To love what you've been running from?"
This is not a poem about conquering terror
This is a love song to honor its wisdom
A prayer for the wounded children
In all of us who are afraid still
The Earth is waiting for us to dare
To stop the war inside ourselves
So she can breathe love again
In the peace of our emergence
Fear is a wild, but safe teacher
And pure love is her ultimate gift
When we learn how to hold both
We become our own way home


