Down Is Up

 

Been hanging by a tether thread
for so long
over this frickin abyss...

Twisting ever so slowly

in the indifferent breeze

with nothing below me

but the cruel force of gravity...

Fretting over the fiber shredded

in tearing increments
a fraction more each day
til all that remains for support
is a thin filament

with a broken future...

I realize finally

after much wasted consternation 
the crashing disconnect

I have long dreaded
will in reality
be my liberation

from chronic anxiety