Monday, June 24, 2024

Scared to death Oct. 7, 2013

  

 Scared?  Yes, of course.

You don’t come face to face

 with your mortal enemy

and not feel fear,

 the tightness in the throat,

 the extra beat of heart

the closer she gets,

 mouth so dry

even my teeth hurt,

 not grinding,

not that kind of scared,

 just a lost kind of scared,

 what to say, if anything,

 where to look

 anywhere but where she is,

 each stare from her stabbing,

 drawing no blood, just pain

 a year not enough time

 to heal my self-inflicted wounds

or more so, the ones I caused,

my fingers clutching my camera

until my knuckles turn white,

as I wait out for something

I expected to happened,

but doesn’t, won’t

, as she floats here and there,

 like a bumble bee,

 stinger for me just to look at,

to be seen,

as I wait out the time for it all to begin,

then end,

 so I an crawl home,

bleeding,

 just not bleeding,

scared,

but I know not what of.

 

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