Trepidation by Daisy Asiimwe

 

Your eyes wide, eyes open

Move them side to side

For darkness has many things to hide

Check around you, don’t make a sound

It's there

You see your being watched

Frozen to the spot

You begin to feel hot

You can tell your trembling

It seems to notice you   

Now here it comes

This...this apparition as it stalks towards you

Its eyes gleaming hungrily, as you fidget with agitation

Looking in vain for the nonexistent exit

                

Finish your reading

Check your knowledge twice

Because you know this isn’t about to be easy or nice

Here they come papers in hand

Take a deep breath ‘’I hope I understand’’

You open the booklet cautiously slow

For you are unaware of the questions, you will unfold

The words jump at you

Grip you tight with hold

They've trapped you

You feel all the knowledge -

          Has disappeared as you think of all the things you potentially left unread                               

You frantically try to yank your thoughts back

Fighting back the urge to scream

                                      Then realization hits you like a blow                                         

I can't do this

This is impossible for me!!

 

There gazes are on you

Lying in wait

Just for the right time

For you to make a mistake

To trip or fall or say the wrong words

All these thoughts are absurd

Yet those chances are 0

Then the unthinkable

Off you go head over heels

Face flat on the floor

They gaze at you their faces, remorseful

But you don’t let yourself be fooled

You can see the cunning beneath those sympathetic eyes

They cackle like witches

Howling like dogs

Eyes malicious

Staring, Judging

                 What have I done?                   

But no matter what you do.

If only it wasn’t true

You can't always run from the things that frighten you.

But at the same time, you may not be able to run at it either.

No not at those awful creatures

But courage isn’t a feeling it’s a choice

I think now it's my time

And soon it will be yours

Let us be brave

Good luck to you all