by Tammy Lee Morris

Created on: October 13, 2009

Terror - stark and raw

heart-pounding and breath-stealing

turns bone and muscle into

stone and jelly - worthless

Shivers creep on spindly spider legs

down petrified spine,

feet become as trees -

rooted deeply

and voice is lost

among the screams

of imagination which

conjures images

from Hell

Silent prayer begs

for waking

and sunshine

to pierce darkness and dreaming -

but there is no reprieve

only the feel of taloned hands

grasping, tearing

persuading without gentleness

and dragging further into the abyss

of fear

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