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(poem) The Tightrope

Jealousy is a tightrope the girl steps along step    by step       by hard step The steady descent  into insanity She’s up on the high wire a hundred feet high That’s where jealousy lurks     that nerve in the brain        confident in what it believes YOU deserve            graceful in the one-way line it stalks across Slow and steady but shaking Trying not to tumble Shaking feet above the ground only the large net near the bottom to catch the fall Arms out, one step at a time      the fear of losing them attacks          the brain              the shaking feet, the frozen lungs            ...