Detox

It's hot outside
Getting hotter in fact
Yet there's a downpour within.
The drought of my soul
In one fell swoop
Has opened
Releasing things
Pent
Scattered and unfocused
Now finely in tune
Through the amplification
Of emotion
And those things that bring it forth.

It's getting hotter
Outside
And I won't be the only one
Running for shelter;
But I keep asking
Is it about time I stayed to burn?
Stayed to burn in my sweltering consequence?
Letting it draw forth
Detoxify my existence
And the detrimental things I ingest...

It's getting hot.
Will get hotter.

Will my place
Be behind the shades of illusion
Seclusion
Or upon the shores of responsibility?
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