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A Cold Grasp


A Cold grasp

Clutches your soul

As your last breath

Blows from your lips

 

you gasp for air

But you're cut off

By a suffocating pull

 

You try to fight it

Stay awake; stay alive

But you flutter in and out

Of consciousness

 
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<p>2nd poem I&#39;ve written is about the suffocating anxioety that I deal with.</p>

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