Sympathy Anxiety Poems

ODE TO MONEYLENDERS

Oh, what designs can one possess
Lending succour to those with naught
Such desperate need one must confess
And how hard one must have fought

When courtesy...

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Strangled into the ropes of death
An undeserving figure took the role finely
Tears were my favorite pal
Scribbling manifested my parallel reality
Overthrowing seemed an eminent long journey
Warmth...

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I am a rock like all the others
We look alike, we could be brothers
I blended in, I am not rare
Another stone without a care

A kid...

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Leonore was disliked, cast aside and ignored,
her rage increased with bizarre behavior:
why couldn't she be the eternal and idolized Queen?
And envy grew towards the more...

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Like a dog
With a sandpaper throat
A cough like a bark
And the mood of a scrote

Just tossing and turning
With no comfortable spot
A nose like a tap
Simply...

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It’s a therapeutic journey 
I didn’t wanna take right now 
The shoe dropped 
And now it's time to pull the knife out of my throat
And...

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The whiskey on your breath 
could make a small boy dizzy 
I taste a liquor never brewed”
Emily Dickinson's - The May Wine 

I am asking...

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Sunshine in rain,
And midnights in vain.
Eyes are wide open,
But vision is already broken.
I appeared to you as a whole,
But you went slicing through my soul.
Taking...

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My life is playing out on the movie screen 
And I'm watching from the front row
Trying not to scream 
Holding back tears 
and trying not...

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Themed distractions, affairs a boulevard,
as elbowed are divided from their minds.
Aloof, queues succeed a ship calling card,
as untrained get on, moons all exit signs.

The General...

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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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Here I am,


In the first fling of youth-

In what sterile field did I find this anti-fecund missive?

This stretching of a hand, drenched in rubbery black;...

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Voices voices voices,
Is all I hear when I'm in between the choices,
Should I say this or that,
I wouldn't even know cause yall would still be...

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She stood on the bridge in silence and fear
For the demons have driven her here
They carve her heart right out of her chest
Making her believe...

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When feeling 

really desperate

almost at wits end

Wait ~ for you must realize

many folk are so much worse

than you will ever know

So positive thinking

remembering folk

whose life...

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