To be Receptive to a Shift in Perspective is a Gift and not an Incentive

when we find our minds in the thick of thin things
someone ought to remind us that worries are oft not of things imminent
but bleak realities that we actually create and exacerbate in the thought process
an effect of distorted perception

and like slow-wave sleep with one eye open
that’s how we may feel
when gripped with fear of that which we unwittingly make real

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