Fear Escaping Poems

I can still hear her boots
hit the pavement as she walks
away. Her sanguine footsteps
swallowed up by the greedy
black night, feasting on
her departure. Waning 
moonlight silhouettes...

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What a busy day it was today, hospitals needing extra
Staff as the pandemic increases in rate, numbers and deaths,
My desk is cluttered, a challenge as...

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This Medusa had no power to turn us into stone
but when she ran aground over Poseidon's throne
his anger stirred, and into the sea the crew...

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Trying to hide in every dark corner.
“You can run, but you can’t hide”
Is what they say.
I never understood that saying, until today.
Always on the run...

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No reason to fool me
For I foreseen all of the rules that be
Here to wrap me, tie me as a remedy
Blind me so that they...

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There is this  Day
Of my this state 
I want to work out 
choices that are hard to relate.

It leaves me to adjourn
the pain eventually
...

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I wish I had some more of my childhood left
It was too soon too much to lose
Those enchanting smiles
Those ravishing times
The boundless mind that dreamt...

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Chased mercilessly 
over well- worn tar 
palpable loss pushes 
a sable brush 
dunked in dread
a furious deluge
of fear 
 oozes out
blackens every inch
 of familiar...

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Feeling the desolation, of smothering air
Hemmed in by crowds; the obliqueness of fear
Throng of the city and no sight of the sun
Incessant noise and the...

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trying to pinch myself,if this is true.
counting one to three w/o a clue.
asking myself why I'm here
nothing is sinking,everything is not clear

wondering if this is...

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I dreamed that I was tangled up in vines
too numerous to count (such slender twines).
They’d somehow crept upon me in the night.
It felt so real,...

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Eyes Staring, Bleeding Through I cannot see
Coughing up Blood I cannot Breath
It's all around
I begin to drown
It's my blood

I cry and squirm for air
Grabbing for...

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