The Terror

Poetic Endeavors

the terror grips in subtle ways 
its slinking claws in mundane days 
to wrap around in silent spells 
and drag the Self across the Hells 

this body tears with social pains 
the heart is pulled to ethical sprains 
and mind in moral straights in choked 
while soul in pious tears is soaked 

yet all without rationality 
the terror moves in mundanity 
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