FEAR AND MADNESS

Melisa Palaú 

Physiotherapy
Autonoma University of Manizales

It’s a cold night in a lonely road

I am all scared, it’s an overload

I feel someone behind me now

My limbic system won’t allow me to turn

I kept walking and the lights went off

My autonomic nervous system got sympathetic

Suddenly my pupil became higher hereof

The adrenaline flowed but I was already paresthetic

I can only blame my temporal lobe for making me feel so alive

Now the blood comes to my lower extremities to run all around me

The fear is imminent, shall be a memory

That my hippocampus will ever remember

Finally I faced the horrid image; the cerebral amygdale was getting ready to attack

My fingertips where in front of the monster that all this time was laughing so high

But I couldn’t touch her; she was just again my shadow

But my frontal lobe was not present to hallow

The reason, of that insane and morbid thought

Because until this day I sense it follows me

In the wind, in the light, in the dark, even in soughs

And its not schizophrenia, it’s just what I can see…