crawling down the length of your spine.
Keeping time
with your breaths,
deliberate, steady, calming
if not for the tickle of the single ant's journey
up and down your body.
Yet, where there is one ant there are many.
Shortly, they congregate en masse
across the expanse of your shoulders and back.
They travel up the nape of your neck
and along the breadth of your skull.
They play with every strand of hair,
slowly coaxing every nerve ending alive
with agonizing accuracy.
Calm gives way to the creepy, crawly sensation
slithering across your sanity,
giving birth to a shriek that bursts
from your very soul
and rattles your core in unending waves
of fear and shame.
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