Melani Udaeta Poet Pantoum

Urges

The answers lie in setting everything free,
allow anxiety to fall and trust the process.
Baby, it’s okay to let the grass grow wild.
Nature has a way of keeping blades level.

Allow anxiety to fall and trust the process,
complete control is really just an illusion.
Nature has a way of keeping blades level,
embrace the animal clawing at your guts. 

Complete control is really just an illusion,
let the raw razors uncurl and blossom.
Embrace the animal clawing at your guts, 
demanding to be released from its cage.

Let the raw razors uncurl and blossom, 
you’ll peak precisely when you need to.
Demanding to be released from its cage,
urges can only be contained for so long.

You’ll peak precisely when you need to,
baby it’s okay to let the grass grow wild. 
Urges can only be contained for so long,
the answers lie in setting everything free.

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Christuraj Alex August 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM Your poem is a powerful, hypnotic exploration of anxiety, control, and wild human instinct. A very powerful work.

Alison A Smith August 31, 2026 at 12:05 AM Melani, this is a compelling pantoum whose repeating lines build an increasingly intense, hypnotic rhythm. The movement between reassurance and raw bodily imagery captures the tug between surrender and restraint with real force. “Let the grass grow wild” is an especially resonant refrain, beautifully anchoring the poem’s insistence on release.