I am afraid, oh I am so afraid! <br />The cold black fear is clutching me to-night <br />As long ago when they would take the light <br />And leave the little child who would have prayed, <br />Frozen and sleepless at the thought of death. <br />My heart that beats too fast will rest too soon; <br />I shall not know if it be night or noon, -- <br />Yet shall I struggle in the dark for breath? <br />Will no one fight the Terror for my sake, <br />The heavy darkness that no dawn will break? <br />How can they leave me in that dark alone, <br />Who loved the joy of light and warmth so much, <br />And thrilled so with the sense of sound and touch, -- <br />How can they shut me underneath a stone?<br /><br />Sara Teasdale<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fear-2/
