Fear

Frightening voice inside my head,

Pounding heart, a fist of lead

Tightening grip on words unsaid

Swallowed back down, unheard, instead.

Today looms over the bed as I wake,

Fear curls up my neck like a venomous snake,

No rescue from this constant threat I create

Internal voices, fight a pointless debate

Distraction is power, my reprieve, secret weapon

Protecting me from the vitriol they threaten

But in moments of still, I find no escape

Succumbing to numbness, my only mistake

Fear is an illusion, a distortion of mind,

shadow cast from uncertainty, obscuring the view behind.

To surrender this burden of trepidant doom

A garden of seeds with nowhere to bloom