This anxiety poem
Wants to explode
In naked
Allegories
Where fears become prophecies
And beliefs
That eat at old kings
Until their fears become
All they can see
Fear eats them alive
Until they face it
In reality
The very effort to avoid fear
Realizes fearful things
Because it is fear
And the tragic tyrant
Dies ironically
His efforts in vain
His intentions inverted
In a mirror space
Where they divide
And then antagonize
One another
Fear produces fear
The subject shatters
When he recognizes his error
And degrades into a cracked mask
Patterned on a mirror
Reflecting himself
Back at him
Until he becomes
The recycled silencing
Of a diminishing echo
Fading and escaping
Away
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