You tether your thoughts to a leash

and send them out with gnashing teeth

 

They slather through the mystic maze

to tear the flesh from fragile days

 

You feel them pull and twist and jerk

those thoughts released become berserk

 

They bloat and swell beyond inception

too large to shrink at mere rejection

 

You feast and gorge on their return

such well-placed words can make worlds burn

 

They are now beasts beyond command

unbridled from their master’s hand

 

There’s no dominion of recall

what comes for one will come for all