Subsisting Digits

I am hacking off my fingers & thumbs,
extremities of

avarice,
self-doubt,
ill-will,
indifference,
worry,

severing subsisting digits
of

distraction,
complacency,
arrogance,
negativity,
fear.

Not so that I may no longer
form fists,

but rather that I may let go
of these hands
holding me back. And down.

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