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Anxiety Monster

Anxiety, Anxiety-
you creep, you lurk, you worry me
Mangy monster under my bed
on all my fears you must be fed
and when I try to starve you out
you stab me with a blade of doubt

You sneaky, scurrilous, savage beast
I don't hate you, but I like you least!
You are not cute or cuddly
why do I let you cling to me?
You're ugly and you're worrisome
you drain my joy and leave me glum

Anxiety, Anxiety-
I hear you've achieved notoriety
evidently I'm not the only one
you'll hassle them all before you're done!
'Though, I don't see how you find the time
to carry out your heinous crime...

For all day long, and nighttime, too
a hovering pest, too big to “shoo”
you hang around and taunt me fierce
by dangling daggers with which to pierce
I tremble in my delicate skin 
but chin stuck out, I'm determined to win

Anxiety, Anxiety-
you will not get the best of me!
You've wasted enough of my precious years
you deserve no sympathy or tears
like the monster you are, you'll be destroyed
I've armed myself with the likes of Freud

While you watch me, I'll study you more...
know your every weakness- for this is war!
I'll vanquish you for once and all
I've armored up for the bloody brawl
but hey- what's this, a hasty retreat?
Don't tell me that you admit defeat!

No Anxiety, Anxiety-
you're devious, sly and slippery
Before you let me kill you off
you slink away to smirk and scoff
knowing full well that you'll come back
to get me with a sneak-attack!

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/21/2019 5:17:00 PM

just read your reply to me a while back. Tried it. I've tried everything, so I will keep using temazapan though I hate being subject to a prescription pill!

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/21/2019 5:29:00 PM

I'm so sorry, I hate it when nothing works like that!! Hope you get some relief soon. *hugs*

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib

Date: 1/11/2019 10:24:00 PM

Oh I know that beast. Kick ass poem. Fave <3

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/12/2019 11:23:00 AM

Aw, thanks my friend!! ;))

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/8/2019 9:18:00 PM

Mine only attacks early morning. If it wakes me, I might as well forget getting back to sleep. Do you know of any super good sleeping pills? Even temazpan does not work all that well! GREAT poem on anxiety!!

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/9/2019 3:11:00 AM

We've used a Hops-Valerian supplement... It helps you mellow out & get deeper sleep. That's about all I can think of, though. Thanks! ;)

M. L. Kiser

Date: 1/7/2019 8:17:00 AM

"I've armed myself with the likes of Freud"; did he work? Anxiety can be a nightmare at times. "knowing full well that you'll come back to get me with a sneak-attack!" it always does.

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/7/2019 3:50:00 PM

Not so much... It still sneaks up & gets me!! Thanks for the visit & comment! ;)

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 1/6/2019 6:14:00 PM

Anxiety does strike without warning sometimes, so impressed with all the different metaphors you employ here!

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/7/2019 3:47:00 AM

Thank you, my friend! Sometimes writing it out is the best I can do... ;)

Silent One

Date: 1/5/2019 9:23:00 AM

So many will be able to relate to this... You described it so graphically... Excellent poem..

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/5/2019 10:49:00 AM

Thank you so much!! ;)

Gabrielle Jordan

Date: 1/4/2019 11:21:00 AM

Dearest Rhona, as someone who can get drenched by this beast...I have finally learned how to smack it back...into it's place. I feel bad sometimes that the energy will only find itself landing on someone else. Love this poem! Happy New Year with peace, warmth and kindness in this New Year!Gab

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/4/2019 11:32:00 AM

Hey Gab, I know just what you mean! Glad you enjoyed it, my friend... and hope your New Year is filled with peace, warmth and kindness, too! ;)

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 1/4/2019 8:35:00 AM

This went to my FAV list; if we did not have anxiety, would we be compelled to write poetry? Would we be so smug that it might not have the vulnerability and truth it needs to be felt? Probably. Anxiety does sneak attacks, and I count on them. I love the way you stab at yours my friend. Love the poem!

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/4/2019 9:13:00 AM

Thank you, my dear! Yes, anxiety has it's place... at least it started me writing again! ;P

Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 1/4/2019 5:34:00 AM

Not easy when dealing with anxiety, we have all been there at some point and time, Have a wonderful day Breathe.

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 1/4/2019 5:48:00 AM

Thank you! Yes, I'm breathing better now that he has slunk off in the shadows somewhere. For some reason, anxiety just strikes when I expect it the least...