It starts out in my stomach
With a nauseating sense
Poking and prodding me
While I wonder what it is
Heads for my chest
A predator intent on his ****
Snaking up through ribs
My heart's beating goes still
The drumming grows louder
As it crawls up my throat
Scratching my vocal cords
My speech begins to choke
My mouth goes dry
When it crawls onto my tongue
Stinging the worst sting
That has ever been stung
Before a word is spoken
It is now lodged into my brain
The pounding in my ears
Enough to drive a man insane
I clutch the sides of my head
As it moves toward my face
It curls up behind my eye
And seems oddly in it's place
Searing with intensity
It burns it's way outside
Opening up a small hole
In the corner of my eye
One salty drop protrudes
Falling, glistening and clear
This was the birth,
life and death, of a single tear