The forest is quiet and birds don't sing <br />It's silence the hunters bring <br />The long tall grass and verdant trees <br />Lay silent until the predators leave <br /> <br />A twitch in the ear betrays the deer <br />He's alert and ready to run <br />A summer storm of danger warns <br />As dangerous as the sights of a gun <br /> <br />A man in his dreams yells and screams <br />In a roiling landscape of fear <br />The floor of an elevator fallen away <br />In his dream he's lost all that's dear <br /> <br />A twitch in the eye betrays a sigh <br />We're alert and ready to run <br />Life's big storms of danger warns <br />Some think of the sights of their guns <br /> <br />Racing heartbeats that loudly pound <br />It's the fear of the battle ground <br />The long tall grass and verdandt trees <br />Are ignored till' the demons leave<br /><br />Ray Andrews<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fear-28/
