{"sf1_id":631663,"sf2_id":"k1VgyaDe","title":"Boo!","author":"Fox_Fusion","words":250,"posted_at":"2013-12-17T04:53:00.000Z","tags":["Poem","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/631663-boo","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/k1VgyaDe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/d0/63/d063f2a5-6d08-48c8-8040-bfcbe58dc1e6","description":"#9 of Poetry\n\nUploading old poems. Please provide feedback, as I hope to continue editing and making these acceptable for publication.","content":"I'm watching you within this bush,  \nPreparing for a quick ambush.  \n  \nNow did my appearance frighten,  \nAnd did your rosy cheeks whiten?  \n  \nSince I have failed to surprise,  \nNext time success, I should surmise.  \n  \nThere's nothing else to do but scare,  \nNo other past-time would I dare.  \n  \nI see you riding on your bike -  \nWhen you pass by is when I'll strike.  \n  \nSo did that leave you terrified -  \nYou surely must be petrified.  \n  \nI'm fully aware that I'm not  \nA girl who's capable of scaring  \nBut that's no reason to stop caring  \nOr give up when I think I'm fairing  \nBetter even though I'm still erring.  \n  \nWhen I'm the first to catch a glance,  \nI'm sure to take my scaring stance.  \n  \nDid my entrance cause you to fear,  \nAnd make your innards feel quite queer?  \n  \nAll arguments I will resist  \nWhich request that I do desist.   \n  \nI'll grant you I have had no luck,  \nIt's fact that at scaring I suck.  \nPlease grant me what I wish and seek -  \nThe power to frighten the meek.  \n  \nI really try my very best,  \nTo quicken beating in the chest.  \nBut nothing ever seems to work,  \nNo matter where it is I lurk.  \n  \nAnd all my scaring manages,  \nTo keep my heart in bandages,  \nFrom all the emotional ache,  \nOf no one faking for my sake.   \nI use the scaring to pretend,   \nThat terror explains lonely trend,   \nI push away that which could mend,   \nAnd I've nobody in the end.\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/631641-art-block.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/632063-brevity-of-fire.json"}}