10. Fear Of Poverty
The feeling of never being good enough,
of never being able to win or get ahead.
Ahead of what? A truck?
Of being on a treadmill, of not stepping off,
in fear of going under.
Under what? A train?
Or of confronting something in yourself.
Of going over the edge.
Of what? A building?
So you exist within the burnt-out feeling,
beneath the illness like asthma,
beneath the anxiousness.
(never run down? never pulverised? never broken?)
Wake up! You're dead already. |