Shadows of Fear

 Her feet

could hardly

keep up

with her

heartbeat.

Shadows played

their fear-inducing

games.

Every gust

of wind,

the sudden

choking hand

of the unknown -

grasping her throat,

seizing her breath.

She may as well

have been blind,

as she couldn’t

see a thing.

Every gust

of wind,

assumed

to generate

from tattered

demon wings,

whose maleficent motions

caused a crawling  

of her skin.

 

In foolishness

& haste,

she took a

dreaded path.

Limbs of trees,

in perpetual,

swaying agony,

as skeletal hands

that seemed

to reach

for she.

Claws of

terrible

terrifying

tyranny

&

imagined enemies,

crawling from

cracks of

decrepit

unfamiliarity.

 

 

Come to know

the overbearing

shadows.

 

Come to delight

in your fear.

(2013)