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  • Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
  • Theme: Drama / Human Interest
  • Subject: Poems & Songs
  • Published: 06/18/2022

Paranoid

By Tallisman
Born 1959, M, from Stoke, United Kingdom
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Received by email, sender unknown…
Someone’s knocking at my door
I think their from the government
I’m sure they’ve been here before
Suited men of evil intent
They know I know the real truth
I know what’s going on out there
I’ve seen their watchers on the roof
I have felt their evil stare

Their spider webs of conspiracy
Spread throughout the land
Unravelled and exposed by me
If all goes as planned
But first I have to get away
They’re behind every door
Listening to everytjing I say
Bugs hidden in a drawer

I dare not use the telephone
Hidden camera in the tv
I am never left alone
They’re always watching me
I hear them talking in my head
I know what they want to do
They really want to see me dead
Then they will come for you.

Tin foil covering the window panes
To stop the signals coming through
They are trying to fry my brains
Because that is what they do
They aren’t like us at all
They are a much older race
I can almost see them crawl
Behind their human face

Later, on the answerphone…

I cannot fail
I must go
They’ve read my mail
So now they know
They say I’m crazed.
That I’m quite mad
However it’s phrased
It’s them that’s bad

They’re at the door
The Men in white
Three or four
I will fight
Win or lose
I’ve told you all
So spread the news
Make that call
Then run far away
For they are feral
Ignore what I say
At your peril

On returning the call…

“The number you have dialled does not exist
Please hang up and check the number you dialled before”
I wonder whose call I missed
And now someone’s knocking at my door….

Paranoid(Tallisman) Received by email, sender unknown…
Someone’s knocking at my door
I think their from the government
I’m sure they’ve been here before
Suited men of evil intent
They know I know the real truth
I know what’s going on out there
I’ve seen their watchers on the roof
I have felt their evil stare

Their spider webs of conspiracy
Spread throughout the land
Unravelled and exposed by me
If all goes as planned
But first I have to get away
They’re behind every door
Listening to everytjing I say
Bugs hidden in a drawer

I dare not use the telephone
Hidden camera in the tv
I am never left alone
They’re always watching me
I hear them talking in my head
I know what they want to do
They really want to see me dead
Then they will come for you.

Tin foil covering the window panes
To stop the signals coming through
They are trying to fry my brains
Because that is what they do
They aren’t like us at all
They are a much older race
I can almost see them crawl
Behind their human face

Later, on the answerphone…

I cannot fail
I must go
They’ve read my mail
So now they know
They say I’m crazed.
That I’m quite mad
However it’s phrased
It’s them that’s bad

They’re at the door
The Men in white
Three or four
I will fight
Win or lose
I’ve told you all
So spread the news
Make that call
Then run far away
For they are feral
Ignore what I say
At your peril

On returning the call…

“The number you have dialled does not exist
Please hang up and check the number you dialled before”
I wonder whose call I missed
And now someone’s knocking at my door….

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Cheryl Ryan

03/21/2024

Beautiful poem.
Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful poem.
Thanks for sharing!

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Roy Stubblefield

03/19/2024

I like it, thank you.

I like it, thank you.

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Tallisman

03/20/2024

Thanks for reading!

Thanks for reading!

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Marla

03/19/2024

Well done!

Well done!

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Tallisman

03/20/2024

Thanks Marla

Thanks Marla

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Joel Kiula

03/18/2024

Very well written, i could feel the writers mood in these lines. Welll done.

Very well written, i could feel the writers mood in these lines. Welll done.

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Tallisman

03/20/2024

Thanks Joel..

Thanks Joel..

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Shelly Garrod

08/03/2022

Wow Tallisman that is an amazing poem! Well done. Very creative. Loved it.
Shelly

Wow Tallisman that is an amazing poem! Well done. Very creative. Loved it.
Shelly

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Tallisman

08/05/2022

Thanks Shelly, glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Shelly, glad you enjoyed it!

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