Fear Poem by Laurie Crilly

Doorbells ringing in your head
bodiless faces in the room

huddled alone inside your bed
you know there's someone after you


Calls from strangers in the night
wanting you for their own

you lay awake in bed and cry
pretending there's nobody home

You run from a man inside your head
knowing that you just can't win

you see yourself in an alley dead
alone and raped and beaten

Someone's watching your every move
someone's going to come

someone's going to find you
and set you on the run

Someone knows when you're alone
he'll stake his claim on you

someone knows nobody's home
he'll sit and wait for you

Whether real or in your head
the thoughts so reactive

you keep running 'till you're dead
but it's the fear that keeps you captive.