Suddenly

I twitch

Trapped in memory

I subtly glitch.

I grimace, but slightly

Fight recollections

Lest I bother somebody

I hide my emotions.

I’ve experienced a flashback

By the time I’m done blinking

I am weathering my mind’s attack

Trying to keep it from showing.

To bring about the end of my dark thought

I quickly sever the hydra’s head

Yet, despite this, my guilt refuses to rot

And my humiliation won’t stay dead.

The first regret to lunge at me, I can defeat

But the shames spawned from its carcass smell my flaws

So they hunt me down, stalk me, slavering for fresh meat

A single trigger will gain a great many maws.