Anxious Appitites

Saliva stained ligatures
choke nerve stunted fingertips,
The hangnail noose constricts,
self-inflicted vitriol
still stinging 'mid my fracious grasp.

Strangled shards of apprehension
grind between time-worn teeth,
remnants ripped and spit
from wasted worries
where ageless trauma
discards its rusted reasons.

They plummet perfectly
though vapid voids,
finding precious calm
where comfort clutches
murdered cuticles....