Fear

Easily kicking open The floodgate of panic, The quickening of blood circulation, titanic: A once normal breathing is disturbingly hoarse And the modest in behavior dreadfully coarse. Eyes now pop out of their homely sockets, Relaxed hands out of trousers pockets. Some hearts are ready to make their last murmurs, The headaches of this moment, crushing hammers. Fluid secretions choose knotted temples, With bangs on one’s door supplying more samples: Sometimes over a mismanaged mammoth sum of money, For which one hasn’t yet informed one’s attorney. Fear often would follow a demeaning rape, Whose legal implications one foresaw its shape Or some business, very untidy, completely rotten? Which one had contracted but long forgotten; Death now in a hurry to visit And one doesn’t want to meet it. To Fear I say, ‘’Tufia!’’ Fie! Die! Readily unsettling the mind And the body does bind; Meaningful activities to a halt, grind.