Scared Poem by DiAnne Douglass

Scared
I'm scared
Fear consumes me
Darkness all around me
Threatening to
Swallow me whole

Fear
Fear fills me
Rips right through me
Tearing me apart
Controlling me
Dictating me
And strangling me
In a choke hold

Breath
The breath catches
In my throat
Threatening to
Suffocate me
Choking on
The very air I need
To live

I'm holding back
I can't let go
The memories that
Affect me so
I hold on tight
To them

Afraid
Afraid to let go
Afraid to lose
A part of myself
A conncetion with
My past
A bond to someone
Dear to me

Scared to let go
Of the pain
Of the memories
Of my past
So scared to let go
Holding on tight
For fear of
Loosing all feeling
And being left

Empty...