• Unsuspecting, sitting in bliss
    Unsure something was amiss
    Eyes of blue lifting higher
    Dread rising in my chest like fire

    Sitting up upon my wall
    Ever slowly does it crawl
    Unaware of the power it holds
    Bringing a chill to my bones

    Panic rising
    rising slowly
    Heart is racing
    Pounding in my ears
    My body is cement
    I can not move
    My voice was stolen
    What do I do?

    The creature sits so very still
    perched atop my window sill
    Ever closer does it slink
    Fear takes over
    I can not think!

    Eight eyes versus two
    An unfair match
    My breath goes to a place
    I can not catch.

    My palms turn to ice
    My sight becomes water
    My stomach turns to lead
    Heart pounding in my head.

    Try to swallow down the fear
    My throat is sand..
    It slowly comes near
    I can not move

    I’m under its spell
    Helpless, and scared
    I know this all too well

    It happens each time
    No matter when
    The creature appears
    It happens then

    I can not scream
    I can not cry
    I can not move
    Though I try.

    The room spins
    I close my eyes
    I see it in
    the depths of my mind

    Why won’t it leave?
    Why won’t it die!?
    This creature whom
    makes me cry.

    I can’t explain
    The fear it brings
    The panic I feel
    how my ears will ring

    Its irrational
    unexplainable
    Stupid to some
    To me its something
    I’ve come to know.

    A phobia too real
    Too real to me
    Just as this creature
    of the shadows can be.

    Eight legs, eight eyes
    pincers and such
    A spider to some
    a monster to one

    No matter how hard I seem to try
    The fear I have wont leave or die
    Clinging from an age long gone
    Growing worse with each to come

    I open my eyes…
    The creature is gone
    I can’t relax
    I can’t move on

    I leave the room
    To return..who knows when..
    To live this nightmare…
    all over again.