Gregory Richard Barden Poet Free verse

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Schrodinger's Monster

Don't open your eyes!
          Horrid sounds - screams and scratching,
     an odor of dour demise scrapes your senses sore,

Twisting as a retch in your gut.
          Cold needle breath prickles on your nape,
     seeding your marrow with ice -

Your blood with tar ...
          hair up like wire on your arms,
     and dread ... suffusing all ...

Dread that sits like a two-ton Buddha in your lap,
          holding you as tight as mother's mercy.
     But it matters not ... in darkness ...

What you can't see, can't see YOU.
          Squeeze your lids close!
     Crimp your eyes and strangle their gaze!

For until you see something -
          Until there is undeniable proof of its existence ...
     It ... just ... ISN'T.




* Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment related to paradox and quantum mechanics, (for more info go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat), though when it comes to fear, such things hold little comfort. *

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John Hamilton January 20, 2019 at 12:26 PM Holding you as tight as mother's mercy, love that! Very interesting imagery, have to look up this cat thingy! Gregory Richard Barden January 21, 2019 at 2:12 PM Many kind thanks, John, it is actually a very interesting theory, and there's no way to prove it otherwise ... compelling. My poem takes it in a slightly different direction, but still utilizes the same concept.