Haiku Phobias
Phobia is fear
Terror, creatures in the night
Raw trepidation
Rodents behind walls
They are watching and waiting
Until you’re alone
Rats in the attic
Scurrying across the floor
Keeps me wide awake
In the midnight hour
Red eyes glow in the darkness
Fear wells up in me
Pollutes surroundings
Vermin carry diseases
Infects the body
Venomous spiders
Arachnophobias fear
Damp and dark places
Spiders on the wall
Eight legs and poison stinger
Doorway sticky webs
Screams heard in the night
Spiders hide in bedroom shoes
Slip in your foot, Sting
Poison swells the foot
Working its way through the veins
Soon unconsciousness
Spiders lurk and wait
Always hiding in the dark
Constructing their webs
Claustrophobia
Fear of small enclosed spaces
Cuts off one’s breathing
Walls are closing in
A frightening experience
Sweat beads now popping
Walk twenty-five flights
Elevator brings out fear
Never an option
Too closed in, breathless
Hyperventilated breaths
Lungs feel restricted
Phobias breed fear
In the hearts of all mankind
Everyone has fears
Achluophobia
We leave lights on through the night
Fear of the darkness
Acrophobia
High places are frightening
We stay on the ground
Bacteriophobia
Bacteria is our fear
Fear of infection
Brontophobia
Fear of thunder and lightning
Steer clear of windows
Maniaphobia
Is fear of insanity
Mind lost in a maize
Necrophobia
Death and decay shatters minds
A fear of dead things
Phasmophobia
Deadly fear of ghost sightings
Go bump in the night
Too many to count
Phobias weaken the heart
Unbalance the mind
Phobophobia
Fear of having phobias
Alters the mind set