“Fear Your Grip”

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Abstemious breather, trust your grip

Nourish thoughts of splendor

Asphyxiate your doubts

Return them to sender

 

Wipe the drowsy sand from your brow

What a fuming head of fire

What a scorching storm of white noise

Away with the tinnitus of that warbling mind

Away with such thundering designs 

 

There’s friction between those neurons

Fecund to the fear

Of your fingers slipping quickly

From any serene frontier 

There are tremors with a rhythm rousing discordant noise

 

Your mind plies you with bittersweetness 

Return to sender or fear your grip