Marilyn Monroe is frightened in the theatrical trailer of the 1953 film Niagara directed by Henry Hathaway. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Live with the fear
Poised as an animal
About to flee or fight
In trembling
Dissembling
Find odd delight
My knife against your throat
Makes swallowing hard
And yet you’ll know
Each breath of life
Each turn of card
Live with the fear
Like adrenalin
Coursing through your veins
Revoking all
Invoking all
Human remains
The circle drawn keeps out the dark
But you’re within
It makes you bride to nightshade
Or groom to sin
Live with the fear
© Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
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Wow! intense and riveting Sis!
Love this:
“My knife against your throat
Makes swallowing hard
And yet you’ll know
Each breath of life
Each turn of card
Live with the fear
Like adrenalin
Coursing through your veins”
yeah… that gets my heart racing! LOL
Thanks so much Roxi!! 🙂 : xxx
Great piece Helen and you have captured the essense of the fear. In fact your words have a scary feel about them, an unstated aggression, in demanding living with the fear.
Thanks so much – it has a bit of a dark origin in that I read a book about Charles Manson once where he used to exhort his followers to live with the fear, in much this way, to make them more awake and alert. Not that I’m advocating that, in actual fact, or anything Manson said obviously – it was just a poetic expression of the concept!! 🙂 🙂
You dd it so very well. I felt it.
Wow!! It amazes me how you find something you have read or seen and you turn it into poetry. I have never tried that, I need to!! 🙂
I find inspiration in some odd and very prosaic things…when I’m at the hairdressers I leaf through magazines while the colour is taking hold and see titles of articles or descriptions of clothing or whatever and use that for titles of poems – which then tend to have nothing to do with fashion when I write them!!! It sure does help make the hairdresser time pass quicker though which is great!! 🙂 🙂
Incredible. I will start looking in odd places, too. 🙂
In a way its a bit like responding to prompts – just using something quite different or distinct as the inspiration. 🙂
What a great way to look at it! I love prompts!! Thanks, Sis….you are so great!