Steel to Steel
It rests in the back of my brain. All day long creeping forward
and taking over. Consuming all other thoughts like a malignant tumor.
It thrives on my frustrations and fears. My anger propels it, and so
does my weakness, as I race home music and adrenaline feed it and are
as tissue to the furnace. I walk straight in and down to the basement.
The music continues and my concentration centers. I clamp down hard on
the grips and an explosion fills my body. The crosshatch pattern forms
in my hands and presses against my chest with each push. Steel to
steel, as if a strange form of osmosis. I am out for pain and nothing
less. The only productive kind. The kind that I strive for and love. A
pain like none other. This is not for vanity. This is something much
greater than beauty. For something much more important I strive, Fear
and Respect.
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