Showing posts with label poetry of anxiety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry of anxiety. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

New Poem: FRAGILE

 impressed with your confidence 

 but wasn’t alert to your shades

 of discomfort discontent dissociation 

 just thought you’ll have a good life

 doesn’t matter if I’m not included 

 years later, didn’t expect your obituary 

 read the funeral home website guestbook 

 plenty of condolences for your partner 

 but only three people mourning you

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 wish there had been more true friends you trusted

 to confess I’m in misery I’m broken I want out It’s too much

 and have them drop everything to come to

 your side and help you find ways forward

New Poem: KEEP REPEATING

 neglect absence anger

 helicoptering

 demanding not explaining

 hovering

 hit hard say it’s a love pat

 screaming 

 give you some of what you want

 beseeching 

 if I could I’d pay her to date you

 belittling

 study hard harder 

 encouraging 

 don’t trust you not to be your brother

 discouraging 

 spend the summer away from bad people 

 limiting

 love me regardless of how you turn out

 trying 

 really really trying

 too afraid of your disappointment disapproval 

 accepting 

 accepting

 way too accepting 

 just can’t say no to you

 

Friday, February 27, 2026

New Poem: IT FADES EVENTUALLY

 all the times when you were cheated disappointed thwarted

 going along and burying misgivings to make others satisfied 

 decades pass and it’s too late to demand apologies 

 make the best of where you are in the days/years remaining 

 no more poems about being thrown out of cars, off of trains

 just deep mind-clearing breaths before entering the room 

Monday, September 11, 2023

New Poem: RECURRING DREAM MOTIFS 2023

 looking for clothes

 trying to pack a suitcase

 can’t find clothes

 clothes apparently lost or stolen

 look all over for missing clothes

 find a bunch of concert T-shirts on a table

 all the shirts are too small