Let contempt skewer me
From the inside out
Pepper my sullen nerves
With uncharted agony

Let heinous words simmer
And grow to boil
My timid thoughts

Swarmed
Overrun
Futile and frail
I latch on, sternly
And align
With this ghostly scourge

To thrash on mindlessly
Among this mayhem of notions
The peril I’ve sheltered
This virulent juvenile
I am cursed to bear

To unleash feral thoughts
Is the true clarity I yearn for
Mothered by uncoiled rage
That easily flourishes
In my squalid state of mind