Poem – The Beast | Sarah K Reece

from my journal, March 2009

I see him at my door

this massive monstrous beast

who has been stalking me

from room to room

black and hulking it is, with evil claws

needle sharp teeth and slitted glowing eyes

This new home, this new life

feels so fragile, so delicate

I fear so much to have it also snatched from me

that Fear stalks me, haunts me, and sucks my joy.

Today the oven froze open, bleeding gas

like poison into my home

I shuddered with that bone deep

shake of deep fear and shock

I panted, trying and trying to catch my breath

and I cried, hands rubbing each other,

trying to hard to soothe

that desperate forsaken child in me,

hysterically afraid and

far beyond comfort.

I try to banish my fear.

I lose it for a little while, on the beach

alone beneath the vast sky, watching

the day end

the water turn from fire orange

to silver ice, the clouds

laying like a net over the sky;

catching the stars.

But now, I feel him hulking at my window,

whispering nightmares

and I know that to quiet him,

I will somehow have to answer that question;

now that I have survived

what have I survived for?

2 thoughts on “Poem – The Beast”

This really resonates with me and the final line is something I’m questioning this very minute

Sarah K Reece