Letter To Anxiety
Dear Anxiety
Why do you linger
Like a moth fluttering helplessly around
This light blue windowshut room?
Jittery
Constantly in motion
Almost invisible
Amazed at your persistence
I hear the sounds of your disparate plight
Wondering what I am able to do
Open the window and let you out?
Would you see the wider world roaming out there?
Or would you flutter softly against the unyielding glass
Anxious to come back in?
Would you even go out on your own?
Or would I carry you in my two hands?
I grieve for your lost, aloneness
Are you trying to tell me something I do not understand?
Outside there is tree bark, safe camouflage to lie your soft silken wings flat
It’s not that I do not want you
Just here inside you do not belong
Depriving me of sleep, crashing into the panes
I want to see you safely home, free to go where you belong.
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