Stress Fear Poems

When the challenge has become the quest
The pressure is great to outshine
The fear tries to crawl to the surface
Again will I fall victim to my...

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Shaking like soda
It plunges my heart with claws
Assaults with its fist...

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I wish to seek help
But I'm running out of time
Redemption is late...

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Even when my eyes sting too much to even peek,

I somehow still cannot seem to fall asleep

What is this evil force that keeps me wide...

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I wonder if it's just me
The epitome of inadequacy
So dependent and incapable
Of doing just the ordinary

What is to everyone mundane
Skills ever so easy to attain
Seem...

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Did you ever stand on stage,
behind the big curtain.
Standing there peeking out from behind the curtain,
watching the audience looking at the stage.
Your knees are shaking,
your...

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When fear and stress
   overwhelm
I squeeze into the backroom 
   of my mind...
I slip away 
into the world of words

Words that...

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A woman who says my hair's a mess,
But won't give a comb, leaving it to stress.
Calls my man a friend or sugar so sly,
Ready to...

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Oh, how I dread the horrid sight
of that nasty slop, what a wretched plight.
Its stench invades my twitching nose
I turn away, but my nausea grows....

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Poem
  YOU BREAK MY WORLD

I gave you all 
I mean all, all that our bond required
I thought you were here to stay 
Not knowing...

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It had begun again the terrorist threats 
at first right at the height of my writers block 
leaving beautiful gems surfaced from my minds 
eye...

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I felt like a book 
very tired old and worn out 
needing rest on shelf....

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I’m so far from perfect.
Sometimes, I let fears discourage me.
Many times, I let shadows worry me.
Sometimes, I let the tears fall silently.
Other times, I can’t...

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ABORT ABORT
but Donaldson was already drifting
further and further away from us
the thickness of his suit decreasing 
as his courageous kindness
floated on within his demise 
and...

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     a-tension... apprehension

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