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ANATOMY OF PANIC
I thought I saw a drop of blood
Where there shouldn't be blood
In a fraction of a second
My entire inner environment changed
Hormones flooded my systems with the jet fuel of panic
My mind ran through every possible diagnosis
Faster and more dire than Google
Breathing, blood pressure, temperature
All sped up as the brakes of common sense failed
In less than a second I had gone from normal
To a life and death, flight or fight situation
Blood!
My shaking icy hand touched the blood
And discovered it was a piece of red skin from a peanut
(I love red skinned peanuts and eat them almost every day)
A peanut skin! Not blood!
What a relief!
My heart rate slowed, breathing returned to normal
My mind stopped racing around the race track of disaster
A peanut skin, that's all it was
Nothing more, except a few bad moments when I believed
Everything in my existence was in mortal danger.
It was just .... nuts.
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