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Towards my dawn
How worse fate can be than this?
How crueler anything can ever be than this?
How colder a night can be than this?

Lying on this ice cold street
Feeling the sharpness of gravel against my cheek
With wind mercilessly hitting every scratches in my body
Hearing myself gasp in this quiet november night
Seeing the shreds of my favorite pink dress besides me...
FEAR is just a word!

Do you know what is fear?

Fear is making yourself as small as possible
Hoping eventually you will disappear.

Fear is swallowing your own cry
Hoping that animal won't return
And prey upon you again.

Do you know what is fear?
Fear is this cold and dark night.

I don't know for how long
I've been lying here without moving a limb.
Tears keep flowing and flowing
As I watched the starry sky,
Dostoevsky's words rushed into my mind.
"Could ill-humored and capricious people live under such a sky?"

"Capricious', I said watching the sky.
Helplessly I played everything in my mind
Again and again...

That animal smiled at me earlier in the evening.
Yes! A smile!
An act that marked humanity!
An act that showed love!

Poor me!
I have to blame myself for forgetting
That capricious people lived under this sky!
I have to blame myself for searching
Any trace of humanity in that animal's eyes!

Poor me!
I have to blame myself for believing
That the...