Once faced with a threat, I began to cower.
Where did I learn to fidget and when did I start to shudder?

Was I taught to fear?
Was I born with it?
How does it occur to me?
I can't comprehend it's consummation.

Controlled by something familiar, yet foreign.
Directed by this darkness, so wielding.
My body developed a mind outside it;
it's best to say I was out of my mind.

I was in the dark about the cause of the chaos unfolding
As I ran in circles in the dark, unknowing.
I ran and tripped on a wood,
Unclear about being in the clear or out of the wood.

I was in the street when all around me went haywire.
I had never been so afraid.

©UcheVic.