Tears When My Fingers Hurt- a Collaboration By Akkina Downing and James Swartz

When my fingers hurt the pain binds and forms at the base of my greatest fear I never knew fear Until it knocked on my door So fierce that What words were on the tip of my tongue Are drying up into dust in my mouth The taste that lingers a lifetime a sickness summoned for the saints to strafe the fear growing inside the soul My heartbeat escalates to full speed But my body is numb to the floor And my mind is in a twirling tornado Tears of fear rush down into streams When my fingers hurt and I can not write this fear beckons to my mind as I use the verbs to clear the nerves Can you hear the drops of my tears Drumming to the beat of my fear