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the bridge he needed to cross was overgrown with tangled thicket’s brush

ragwort and giant hogweed littered the pernicious path to his own progress 

of perspectives and the slow death from stagnation and frightening delusions 

he had to traverse at all cost to kill the perilous onslaught of doubts and sorrow


he could barely see his visage in the pond below and was petrified by the image

his reflection resembled  an oozing blemish towering over a mind on crutches

to dampen his sadness and escape from the overpass he jumped head first

but the rock pool sentry disallowed the attempt and bounced him straight back 


spread eagled he landed where he had been in dismembered celestial formation

in astral denial of an easy route to disperse moribund comets of grave  error

he was promised enterprise by his therapist for a healing journey and growth

who cautioned him that he needed to find for himself what path to take and how


his stepladder had broken and the rope tied itself into desperate knotted demise

secateurs were blunt from pruning neuronal pathways and he stabbed in vain

at helplessness and wished for a pick axe if only to lobotomize his rescue

or at least a shovel to burry his remains for worms and fungus to take care


his other option was to swallow nettles thorny thistles and his scornful jungle

to munch one by one all the obstacles which he had put in his way all by himself

maybe there were magic mushroom hidden or some foliage foiling descent

but with no such luck he gnawed at Self's temptation to throw up his downfall


24th October 2020

Eight Word Challenge 11

Sponsor John Hamilton

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