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March 18, 2022 at 9:38am
March 18, 2022 at 9:38am
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Acrophobia

Don’t look down. Don’t look down.
Yet, when you live on the edge,
down is all there is.

The abyss yawns,
only the rock beneath the feet
a hold on sanity.

Waiting, perhaps,
to learn to fly.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For
Express It In Eight, 03.18.22
Prompt: Photo of man standing above an endless precipice.


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