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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsKT0s5J8ko

Focus on the pain.
Fixate on it.

Allow it to entangle your attention -
Trace knuckles and twist joints,
Recognize the sensation

And translate the white noise.

Close your eyes and accept the pain
Or risk falling into that self induced numb
That is the precursor to the unconscious thrum

Of the sweet swill of insane.

Let the pain become who you are.

You are the bite down hard.
You are the twisting jaw.
You are the spasm.

You are the phantom.

Beware the drowning.
Beware the ignoring.
Beware the forgetting.
And beware the abetting.

Be the pain or become insane.
Own the torture or surrender your future.

Those are the choices.
Those are the prices.

And you know what happens
When it's left to its own devices.