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.