Thursday, 20 February 2025

Behind

 


It's right behind me, isn't it?

I can feel the breath

slick upon my neck

and the fear sinks to the pit

of my stomach.

A heavy weight

pulling down on me.

 

I know it's there, I can hear it

licking it's lips, but I dare not turn.

How can I face it? That fear would chase

any hope I have away.

It would leave me a quivering wreck,

at the bottom of an ocean

of unfathomable depths.

The sinking feeling

is making me sick,

the pain in my guts

pushing upwards.

 

It's closer still. I feel ill,

the rancid stench of rotten flesh

like the bitterest pill

it makes you gag, I feel

like a paper bag caught in a tornado.

My head is spinning.

The air dizzyingly thin. Worryingly so,

and my stomach contents

are quickly rising,

but the fear

is pressing them

back down again.

 

I'm all nervous shakes,

a sea of cascading waves,

and I know it's not backing away.

I can feel it's glare

on the back of my head,

burning away

any sanity I had left.

I just stare straight ahead.

If I was in bed

I'd pull the duvet tight

and hide instead, but I'm not.

I’m here, shaking with dread.

I feel the hand on my neck

and my world fades to red.

 

 




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Kyle

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