TRIBUTE TO SELF-DOUBT

Here it arrives, in the head again. Your eyes
On me, waiting for my grand, doomed fall.

An overdue visit from a companion-cloaked
Monster, a killer of starry dreams.

A skip-of-heartbeat lasts for a breathless while,
Demanding my heart’s hushed suffocation. Lagging.

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Stuck. In turmoil and mishap and despair, paired with
The spell of confusion in the dead-end. Streets. All tangled,

I put my guard down and magically disarm its tentacles.
This beast, feeding on dark poison-ink, in my ocean of think

March, 2019

-b.c.