Dreaming Lately
I’m late. I know I’m late. The gravel crunches under my boots as I turn another corner. If this place weren’t so monotonous I might have a clue where I was…
Thoughts On An Anxious Lover
Last summer I thought I kissed the doubts right from your chapped lips. I could have sworn I did, but tonight you rolled over in bed to face the wall, curling…
Copy That.
I sit at our kitchen table, waiting for something to happen. The sirens keep wailing passed the house. My heart beat was screaming in my ears. Threatening to…
A Wall.
This is it. This is the test you’ve been working towards your whole life. I skim the edge of the paper with the end of my finger tip. The epidermis of the…
Panic Attack
I’m already Unsteady, Caught In petty Thought, Anxiety Has got me, And I can’t see, I can’t be seen, I seem stuck In between, Blind and Out of time, Out of…
Soaked Clothes
Wanda bit her lip as she rubbed her sweaty palms on her pants as she waited on the leather couch in her living room. She could still hear the shower running…
You’re no longer sure if your feet are on solid ground.
Your throat begins to heave and plunge. You’d surely be sick if your stomach was anywhere to be found. Luckily, it isn’t. Then the room begins to spin. The…
Compulsive
You have to go to school today. Despite everything, your mom is making you go. She directs you to the car where you sit and fold your arms across your chest…
Catching Fire
Bill Jones was the epitome of metro-sexual, a young, good-looking, well-dressed, burgeoning therapist who heard what his patients were really saying as opposed…
You Know Who You Are
Torment my mind and dispatch my hope to a barren landscape Wither and cry until nothing cheers me up…tangled in this sordid tale A farce about love...about my…
Write of Passage.
“We’re starting class with a test! You’ve heard it since elementary school. No looking on anyone’s papers, and no talking.” The teacher began to pass out the…
Playing Catch Up.
I grab the metal object sitting beside me too quickly, I couldn’t wait any longer. I nicked my finger picking it up, a dapple of red bubbles out of my skin…
Just Another Night
Restless, I relentlessly seek intrigue at the bottom of a bottle...or two, or four. As the cigarette at the tip of my finger burns away, so too does my…
An Ant Atop a Mountain of Quicksand
There’s a soft quiet darkness as I lay in bed... My heart pounds from the anxiety of a shrinking sensation, while in an unfamiliar place. My ear drums thump to…
A Non-Oprah-esque Aha Moment
With trepidation, and no small amount of anxiety I made the preparations. Winter gear went in the A4 bag. Uniforms stacked neatly in the rolling camo bag. All…
Harrowing Anxiety
Your throat begins to heave and plunge; you’d surely be sick if your stomach was anywhere to be found. The angels in your ears whisper the most horrific…
Home Court
Folks mingled by the door blocking the entrance to the community center. I stood for a polite moment outside of the clear glass doors hoping someone would…
Fear Crept (Poem)
Fear crept behind my eyes As I looked to my crystal ball; Fog swarmed around the glass And would not show what I’d befall. Fear then crept down my shoulders As…
Two Days
Gareth awoke feeling fantastic. The sunlight shone through his window. His radio alarm clock rang with the voices of the morning DJs having an inane…
Rabid Stress
She grew listless as the days went by, her eyes always peering out of some obscure opening within the house. He inquired several times but learned nothing…