Paranoid

She looks over her shoulder Expecting to see a pair of eyes She becomes alert At the slightest rustling of leaves Expecting thieves Will take her jewels away; Frantically panics When she sees snow or rain Expecting the world's end. Don't know how she sleeps in the night Or works in the day Bound to her chains of fear A slave to her anxiety Forever paranoid.

Jessea L. Vaughan
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