Guilty Conscience

by James Phillips Salas

Why does the mind race across the inferno
into eternal despair?

Why (is it just me) does one feel
a tinge of guilt
for a supreme lack of care?

the mind (a curious body), an item
of passion,
logic pushes death into my affair.

Each passing moment needles
into my spine torment. pain is everywhere.

I seek
the truth.
When it comes I find the only fault to be
my mind in a snare.

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