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Adjust your body and suffer its shocked response. Resist cravings, comforts and harden your resolve to succeed this time, to stay strong and transform yourself into the vessel you need to really be yourself at last.

Phantom pain for an imaginary future, painted and framed before the first step is complete. Watch it fall and crash to the floor when the truth is revealed as a fantasy you were too late to grasp.

Bleed to feel complete, worthy, a clear red sign of life and life-giving so you can breathe and hope again. Wait and see, wait to live.

Craft beneath nature the dying colours of Autumn reflected on your saw, shaping the carcass of trees while you bask in its children’s splenda. They weep dead leaves upon you as you continue defiling their friends, but you are human, deaf to their pain, and continue to fill the world with trinkets.

Chondite chunks of collision whacking, shaping into polished ingots. Hours, days of grinding to produce this one step in a greater journey. Perhaps you should have stayed amongst the stars.

Dawn stained the sky chasing away the peace of night and summoning the noise of life and responsibility. Stumble awake and join them or be left behind and forgotten.

Bleed out, anticipate a year away as your life seeps between bloodless fingers straining to contain what you can and prolong your meaning just a little longer.

Tally another year to your life and celebrate the day to make it feel special, just like everyone else. Treat yourself to materials and consumables, entertain with preferences to satisfy the passing of your time. Grateful or regretful? Either way it has come.

Set a challenge to push yourself into action. Motivate what should already be second-nature, self-preservation, an anticipated activity you have pushed aside for the mundane and uninspired. Remember the feel of creation, the breath of paper, the conjuring of life with ink that pulls you away and makes you who you are.

My insides are melted chocolate thick and stained but enticing, delicious, worth the calories.