Farewell Anxiety Poems

Three days ago I did not wonder if you loved me
Five days ago I did not wonder what you would do if you could not...

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I can be your doctor the pills won’t hurt
Take a couple baby or you’ll get worse
I am the medicine queen come and hit me up...

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I hope you lose sleep
All these things you did to me
I'm done keeping peace...

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I have nothing more to write. I have nothing else to give.
I have nothing left inside. I have no reason to live.

I have everything that’s...

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Some years, February is the coldest month.
Most years, only the second coldest. 
Always, it is the shortest month, 
even during leap years like 2024. 
Kale-month....

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The world doesn’t tend to give you what you want 
Give me a locked box, the indescribable taunt 
What if she was feeling generous? 
In...

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Loving me is a sin
This love never wins

I can’t help but admire you
But it doesn’t mean you have to love me too

Loving me is a...

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Go now! I shall stay amidst my woe,
My soft heart twitches with affliction.
Fleeing condemnation,  I will go!
A cold man of science; is no show.
Obscene...

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A false rush paved the way, 
amidst empty glasses and pizza boxes 
everyone had something to say.

Mauve, green, white, and blue. 
A hint of banter....

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I burned your placemat.
A sunny yellow flower.
I used it at my desk.
It was ANOTHER thing I had ruined.
You emphasized ANOTHER.
Another thing I can't do right.
Another...

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Let me think,
But only for a moment.
I’ll let time pass and move on,
As I think and figure out what the solution to all my problems...

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Do you ever replay regrets,
Breathing in that cracked breath, 
Inhaling the last of your little secrets,
Never to suppose, this is not in fact, death.

Even outside,...

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Yes, I know I must go to confession.
But, oh my, it has been over a year!
So, what if I freeze during the session?
I’m worried Father...

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The Romans could have saved their empire,
If only there had been fewer forests, 
For their enemies to hide in.

In open land they reined supreme,
Raging rivers...

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As the business's closure loomed in the distance,
Anxiety gripped me tightly, a relentless insistence.
Late-night thoughts birthed migraines, a sleepless affair,
The shop had been more than...

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