emotional shrapnel

invincibility had been a difficult pastime the flak vest of insecurity and coverups had managed to inflate anxieties and fears to the bursting point of impromptu explosion the festering boil had to be lanced at any cost for resentments anger hurt and self-harm to subside a bullet proof illusion was no longer an option to call it friendly fire would be an understatement what started as a splinter soon became a red-hot cudgel incising the mind soul body complex of delusions yet no more fully detached from valid emotions he decided that having feeling was better than amnesia