Some people say a strong blend of Ginseng tea can help put away ominous thoughts.
The art belongs to Hieronymus Bosch, and is called "Death of the Reprobate".
I thought I’d share these verses I wrote a long time ago, in 2009. It was published by Samie Sands in the anthology book Monster Attack https://a.co/d/eedfK2Z
Have you ever been afraid?
Have you ever seen the unseen
Peaking from underneath the mattresses
In the death of night?
Has your mind ever fed
From increasing paranoia?
To think you will never escape it,
Yourself and the way that you are.
Have you asked forgone Gods
To aid you and give you safe passage
Through this hell we call Life?
I can answer yes to all.
I know damnation when I see it,
Well enough to know,
I am positively damned.
Uncanny recollections,
And distant echoes from faraway places…
Knowledge begets fear
And infinite respect.
A word to the wise,
Seeking freedom comes with the high price
Of losing your mind.