Escapril 2021 Day TwentyEight – “extreme dissonance”

Your skin crawls under my touch;

shaking, shivering up and down your spine

in zig-zagged lines.

I’m sorry, did I scare you?

For that was never what I meant to do —

but if it is a horror to behold me, so be it.

Your darkest, deepest secret is safe with me to keep it,

lock and key,

deep within me.

So why are you still frightened,

looking for a way out?

I am a part of you;

try as you might, you cannot cut me out

or hack me from your body

with the axe you grind as you grit your teeth;

no matter how much you seethe

or convulse at the thought of me,

I am still living within your mind,

adding to the din that rings in your ears,

screaming “Listen to me, for I am present!

I am here!”