From the sky in my mind
This world comes undone
The ocean of my conscience
Steals away my latent joy
I hear the footsteps
I smell the stench
My truth is but to close my eyes
Without the light my world is mine
I feel myself being swept away
My heart chained to a rock
I'm left for the birds to pick at
I'm without myself, without my life
The life within me is left dormant
The hate in my eyes asleep without myself
The stars in my sky begin to fall
The moonlight softly leaving me behind
There's a looseness in my back as I'm pressed against the wall
My chest tightened without a chance to breathe
I'm hurting
My body aches, I can't take much more
Its just too much
I can't help but to cry, I can't help but to scream
My lungs are emptied, now a hand on my mouth
No more!
Its over and I fall to the floor
Again I can breathe
Again I can spend the days, counting the ways it went wrong
Never again, never too brave to ever escape
Author notes
Too vivid an experience
A contest entry
- Fear Itself by glued-to.
450 points, ended July 2, 2007, 16 entries
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i don't think i really understand what you fear per se...but this poem definetly hits me deep. it is very scary, very scary almost like a horror story. did something like this happen to you (if you could please describe it in a message to me as best of feel able because it helps me interpret the poems for this contest, thanks) the last three stanzas are the most powerful because they feel the most desperate to me. wow. thanks for your entry, and good luck
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