reason

These thoughts have attacked me.
My spine curving in defense against
impossibility
dead ends and the incapability
of vision to see
instead,
blurry shadows and
something like duty
that gives no pleasure
instead
my feet have lost the ground
emotions slipping
and still
when all I could want
was a loss of reason
and raw feeling to overcome
the patience of rationality,
miniscule hooks of truth
cling to darkened thought.