Fear

Fear is an emotion pending,
Excited by the evil threatening.
Imagination running wild,
Brings fearful pictures to the mind.
A moonlit night, a shadowed place,
A figure or suspected face.
Imagination, growing stronger.
A need, to be there no longer.
Then the heart does beat much faster,
Controlling moves like a master.
The body it then picks up speed,
Wanting a route or path to lead,
Out of the place where terror hides.
The feeling flows like rippling tides.
Then once in home or safer spot,
The inner feeling stars to rot.
A shaking body and paler face,
Show traces of that evil place.