• where am I,

    can you guess?

    I'll give you a little hint.

    there is blackness all around me,

    no colors, grays or tint.



    six inches of space- to my left,

    six inches to my right.

    my heart begins to pound real fast,

    my mind is full of fright.



    the walls are padded which is nice I guess

    I have a pillow beneath my head.

    my bodies lying prone,

    they thought that I was dead.



    But I was only sleeping,

    my eyes were closed real tight.

    this is just a big mistake,

    "this can not be my plight".



    No one hears me when I scream,

    cause there is- no one around.

    everyone has gone away,

    it makes a muffled sound.



    have they all forgotten me?

    my fingers turn blood red

    my fingernails have all fallen off

    I scream "I AM NOT DEAD"!



    My screams are LOUD and FRANTIC now,

    no hope of being saved.

    louder, LoUdeR, LOUDER still

    is how I RANT and RAVE!



    I have "claustrophobia",

    it must be "taphephobia"

    do you know just what that means?



    please, PLEASE! tell me why.

    no one can hear my screams.



    where am I now,

    have you guessed it yet?

    in a puddle of my own sweat.



    __



    Startled now, I suddenly wake,

    was this nightmare only in my head?



    I sit straight up,

    with a nervous laugh...

    "Whew" ... "I'm only in my bed".