A Reason for Fear?

I approach the box

with trepidation

fear of what

might be found

inside

I open the door quickly

Tiny bodies jump

flee the light

I leap back

Spiders spill out

creeping and crawling

by the hundreds it seems

I grab the mail

slam the door

and run

for the house

waiting for something

to slip out

from between envelopes

and scurry up my arm.

When I was a kid, we were playing hide ‘n’ seek and others thought it would be funny to stuff me in the mailbox, so IT wouldn’t find me. They ran off and forgot about me. IT didn’t find me, but spiders did! To this day I still have nightmares of creepy-crawlies getting on me.