Black Fear
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Gabrielle Clarke, Grade 10, St Francis Xavier College
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Poetry
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2014
1st in the 'The Text Generation 2014' competition
I could feel it creeping up inside me; the fear.
It began in the pits of my clenching belly;
A little ball of snivelling, pure darkness.
Then out came its black, slivering tentacles,
And like a vine, it began its journey upwards.
Pushing my organs and intestines out of the way,
It climbed and crawled and clawed hungrily,
Like a starving man trying to quench his thirst.
As it reached my ribs I could so keenly feel it,
Wrapping around each and every rib carelessly,
In and out, in and out, in and out; like a slithering demon.
Then it started to envelop around my contracting lungs,
Smothering them, as if trying to stop me drawing breath,
I could feel the air coming in and out in short puffs.
Suddenly, shocking me, it pierced my beating heart,
Ripping a bloody and painful hole straight through.