You Live Once

The beat
of my strained heart
pumping its poison
keeping me alive
at 3:00am.
Anxiety
rushes up
and down my spinal chord,
tension in
every limb,
finger,
and toe.

"You live once."
I find my self
saying it again;
"You live once."

Forcing the deepest breaths possible.
When I wake up tomorrow,
I'll forget this happened.

Goodnight world.

10/10/07 3:10am