A Torturing Nightmare

• Thushaaraa Madathil, Grade 5
• Poetry
• 2015

Invasion and massacre is all I can think
Or even surviving a close death on the brink
It will consume you inch by inch
It will increase its tormenting pinch
Isolating you in a land of fear
Something you wouldn't want to hear
Bedeviling you in every restless turn
An internal Burden that constantly burns
It raises your hair
A torturing nightmare