the shaking
the involuntary behavior
the pacing
the repeated words
and the tapping
are all well within me.
a system of flight
when my sympathetic nervous system gives up
and refuses to fight.
again and again and again and again
we go
down the same broken road just trying to find home
after mass destruction
and tragic
irreversible
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