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Post #3

where am I,
can you guess?
I'll give you a little hint.
there is blackness all around me,
no colors, grays or tint.

six inches of space- to my left,
six inches to my right.
my heart begins to pound real fast,
my mind is full of fright.

the walls are padded which is nice I guess
I have a pillow beneath my head.
my bodies lying prone,
they thought that I was dead.

But I was only sleeping,
my eyes were closed real tight.
this is just a big mistake,
"this can not be my plight".

No one hears me when I scream,
cause there is- no one around.
everyone has gone away,
it makes a muffled sound.

have they all forgotten me?
my fingers turn blood red
my fingernails have all fallen off
I scream "I AM NOT DEAD"!

My screams are LOUD and F.RA..N...T.I..C now,
no hope of being saved.
louder, LoUdeR, LOUDER still
is how I RANT and RAVE!

I have "claustrophobia",
it must be "taphephobia"
do you know just what that means?

please, PLEASE! tell me why.
no one can hear my screams.

where am I now,
have you guessed it yet?
in a puddle of my own sweat.

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Startled now, I suddenly wake,
was this nightmare only in my head?

I sit straight up,
with a nervous laugh...
"Whew" ... "I'm only in my bed".

© David W. Smith 2009
davidsmith03@comcast.net
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