I Feel A Change

Finding ways to map 
my own terrain 
no matter what bars the way 
because I feel a change 

Drugs just aren't enough 
I call that demon's bluff 
They're for enhancement
They're not the enchantment 
That's the meat of 
the argument's thrust 

The argument against being a prisoner 
Making a prize of scant light 
The argument in favor of coming back to life 

Along my path 
plenty of pitfalls 
My steady pulse relaxes my roll 
I don't have to pick a poison 
when I can pick a prism 
to pre-emptively refract 
a threatening panic attack back 
so trepidation doesn't 
stab so sharp 
So I remember 
I'm swift and smart 

I can pick my way 
through a gauntlet of dangers 
Like the abject terror 
of loving my neighbors 
instead of staying away 
Staying strangers 
when we're all trying to shake 
the things despair named us