Fear grips me

And then

My tongue gets tied throat turns dry

A stone swings over the heart and sweat breaks out from armpits.

Eyes screw shut and piss and shit turn loose

Cattle bellow in fear

Centipedes coil up porcupines spread their quills

Feathers of birds get stuck

Aquatic animals shove to cling to each other

When the land gets scared

There is earthquake

What if an ant is afraid ?

When a mountain panics where does it hide?

On the spot it spews lava

Sensing danger the sand pulls storm over it

Shedding leaves in the wind the tree bares its frame

Then what would the forest do?

When pursued by randy floods rushing to rape

the jittery river runs wild

and like a child seeking shelter of mother's bosom

merges in the sea

Occasionally even the language is terrified

Then the grammar like a gown is ripped from her tattered blouse

and the spellings are yanked above the knees

Underneath them

the honour of

Life force - love - humanity - universal consciousness

is mangled, rent and violated

Afterwards

to cast out the evil eye

by flinging out

some sinister malevolent ill omened object from the house
the language, swaying like one possessed,

would throw

Poetry out