A Life Lived in Fear

   What does it mean? 
   Epochs caught by a sliver 
                                      of 
                                      light
   A movement just missed from the corner of the eye
   Ticks that roil beneath the skin
   Moments beyond one’s 
                                          control
   Syrupy
   Looping dreams of running down corridors
           Up stairs       through 
    crowded airports to only 
   Awake with heart racing to a 
   Phone that knowingly rings