Here Be Dragons

He was reading a book called 'Here Be Dragons' but there wasn't anything in it about dragons. It was full of empties. He read between the lines and all the absences pressed between the pages that nobody else could see. It made him afraid. He tried to make a list of things that he was afraid of, so it would make some sense, but there were no words for that paper either. He was afraid of everything he didn't know. Everything he was yet to know. Somethings that could happen and felt like they somehow would happen- and should happen?- and they hadn't happened ever before, and that was perhaps what frightened him about this future he had. They say you hold your future in your hands. No wonder his were shaking so much all the time. He was afraid of the unknown places that he was headed for and what he would find there. He wasn't scared of dying or of planes or of spiders or heights or needles. He couldn't be afraid of dragons. He didn't believe in dragons.