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!