Showing posts with label anxiety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anxiety. Show all posts
Friday 19 April 2024
Impeding and recurrent
Like Arsenic, I smell sweet but leave bitter tips on tongues
I cause all things to burn, to blossom and become undone
I am famine, woe and ruination
I am the inner and outward expression of internal violation
I am the keeper of the peace, I am the breaker
I am the rudder on the ship in the storm
I am the unraveling of all things,
I am your strife and your sword
I sing your lullabies and keep you warm,
not in winter but in summer when you don't need me
I am thirsty, I am grace, I am pain
I screech, I devour and I accomplish
Yearly subscription to my services except for the mercies of God
I have come to tell you about a time, incipient, incumbent, that will come
Rest in knowing that its all moving, not a funeral dirge
but the whoosh sound of quickness
before our comprehension
There exists a proof and
a pattern to be found in these woes, these wounds, these scars
- cocoaTea.poetry
composed 26.8. 2023
Friday 29 March 2024
Overwhelmed and going under
This thing lives in my chest
It stifles and strangles me, wheezing tight sips of blessed breath
between gnashing teeth and a clench-locked jaw
I want to scream, I want to cry, I want to die
I want to say all the pretty words
I want to sing pretty melodies
with crafty, competent accompaniment
But this thing lives in my chest, rent free
No taxes, no overhead, no HOA no finders fee
Through tight thoughts and scrunched foreheads,
throbbing veins and squinting eyes
I want to scream, I want to cry
This thing bubbling over
a roiling boil, yet it never rises to the top
Let the mercy of God keep me.
- cocoaTea.poetry
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