imagination increases volume
turning tip-toes to timpani's
beyond blackened corners creeks
become a violent cacophony

blustering bravery behind
blissful viewed blindness
soundly unfound in kind
not assuming such kindness

some suspicious activity
arousing anxiety sufficiently
nightmarish creatures nesting
unrested nestling convincingly
permanent peripheral paranoia
silence sings so suspiciously

leery look-out fear's fiends fight lightless
"911. What's the address of the emergency?"
screams recorded rendered symphonic

"what's going on? are you there by yourself?"
a bad man is in my home somewhere
"I need you to stay on the phone with me, ok?
Just wait until we get there."
(killing willingly with karmatic kindness)