Have you ever heard of Fear?

Have you ever heard of fear?

Of strangers' eyes bobbing from that blind spot over there.

Milky shadows that shift and follow.

A breath cut shor--

To match the gasp of a ghost

holding your hand without your consent.

The hairs on your arms standing tall, being touched

without a presence, just a hush.

Cold and cold then hot.

You forgot something.

Don't breathe.

Stop.

Tick Tick Tock.

It's not clean. Your soul. Your back. Your face.

Their judgments rattle the seats beneath

disgracedisgracedisgracedisgracedisgracedisgracedisgrace

The vehicle--its heavy metals--lose its tracks to a cliff

Nosediving

You are groundless

plummeting to the ends of a nightmare

where the bed cannot hold you.

And the floor cannot find you

Yet.

Faces

you can't look at,

tower over you the whole while.

In black and white and criss-crossed eyes

They watch,,,,,,

The vulnerability that you are

Something chases you

slowly.

Both fleshy and frothy

and unseen and

slowly.

It will reach you.

The question is when.

You anticipate it.

It anticipates you.