Fear Poem by James Gibbons

Pain is pain, all the way through.
It watches, waits; always wanting more.
It feels you've been torn in two.
Awake and aware, it starts early.
Pokes and prods, when the dawn dodges the moon.
Ready for the day with its shifty wishes.
Call it what you may it won't go away.

You know just when it started,
clinging to you like an over ripe skin,
the smell of it seeping through open pores.

Where rules broken by those who should have known?
Dig deeper to find your brothers keeper.
Run and deny, cover hiding cry.
It knows just where to look.
and intends friends to sink the hook.

A runaway brain to unknown places,
looking for redemption in all the wrong places.
Alice jumps through the looking glass,
humpty took a great fall.
You finally broke into shattering shards,
and all they could say, this to shall pass.