There is a silence tonight
Penetrating deep inside
All the lights are on now
Yet I feel I need to hide

No darkened shadows
Nothing to haunt or to scare
Nothing I can pinpoint
Just feeling somethings "out there"

I Turn the music on
Then I turn it up
Drown the silence here
My hand's shaking with my cup

What is this feel I have
Why won't it go away
With all the vast majority
There are no words to say

A cat runs 'cross my lap
But in a playful way
Startles me with the move
I jump in fear anyway

Why, Oh why is it now
That I feel these things, you see
Like something's there awaiting
Just waiting to catch me

Turn the corner
Could it be "so" bad
To face the fear within me
It's making me so mad

I try to hide in words that rhyme
Then try to make a game
But in my heart I know the truth
And it's not the same

So the lights go out; the music stops
The cats are put outside
In the darkness now remaining
I face the fear inside

hak
28 Aug 2001
2018