Fear Is A Shadow

by JOSEPH BRYANT (Italian Stallion)

Shadows of fear,
bleak, barren walls,
rod-iron cylinders:
black and white.

Encapsulated –
eclipsed,
enforced…
END.

(He gazed out the vertical slots,
and posed with his arms about.)

Haze – smoke exhaled,
peppered stick melts.
Solarity, entirely,
day-break silence.

Encapsulated: confined from freedom,
eclipsed: watched at all aspects,
enforced: demanded to lay down,
END: handcuffed, imprisoned.

(Innocence reflected in his eyes,
aspiration carried within his heart.)

Fear’s shadow – desolate,
concrete walls, hardened-
steel bars, silence
black and white.

© Copyright 2009 By: Italian Stallion

*Image: http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/files/u15/Prison.jpg

*Ekphrasis or ecphrasis is the graphic, often dramatic description of a visual work of art. In ancient times it referred to a description of any thing, person, or experience. The word comes from the Greek ek and phrasis, ‘out’ and ‘speak’ respectively, verb ekphrazein, to proclaim or call an inanimate object by name.