Five syllables
A word
Defined in itself
Naming fearer
As well as feared
How can we say
Us
Without Them?
What do we fear:
The stranger
The unknown?
This childhood
Nightmare
Not outgrown
Of tentacles in the night
Brain-eaters
The alien.
Must it always be
We,
They?
Is it so difficult
To accept?
But no:
We fear them
Forgetting
We are also Them
To them.
� 2003 Kyle Altis
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