Internal

Risk's
grim reaper
worry phantom
pierces
desire's season
with dread.


Insides burn
from panic,
imaging
ambition's assassins
after anxiety's encounter,
writing fables
to numb crackling
spine turns to Jello.
slipping into shadows
of fear's breath,
inhibition stained
with reaper's portrait.

Creating escape
upon delusion's
quicksand,
never free,
but selling maps.