It's quiet downtown

The double helix

The foundation of life

Our blood

Our path

A feeling arrives

From a stray region

Tiny yet powerful

It latches on

Gnawing at your ribs

Chewing and grinding

Creates a feeling

Of a fire exploding

A noise booming

Chest burning

It rises up

Engulfs the mind

Growing

A parasite to a

Paranoid host

Rather than resist

You comply

Give it control

Let it tear

Let it destroy

Till it is the host

And you are the parasite

To its continuation

A hurdle to existence

That's soon purged

Quiet....

Stillness prevails

Nothing remains

All consumed as fuel

And the fire is dead

Behind a hollow stare

An empty smile

A humorless laugh

Lies the offcut

Left with a choice

This is the moment

When you're

In so deep

It feels easier

to just swim down

And below you dive

In a perfect spiral

Till bubbles cease

And you rise again

Cold and grey