I’m not strong. I only yell my hands to still until I reach the lonely corner to curl up and give in to the weakness. I’m not… Read more “I’m Not Strong”
Tag: coping with anxiety
Scrape Me Off
Scrape me off till I’m just bone, no muscles left to ache. Leave me limp on somewhere soft and in the sun to bake. Pop my joints,… Read more “Scrape Me Off”
Anxiety is an Alarm That Can’t Turn Off
Turn off the alarm blazing in my central medulum of gray matter and hypocampus. That ‘primal alert’ the flight or flight– just turn it off. Because it’s… Read more “Anxiety is an Alarm That Can’t Turn Off”
Tell Me How To Fix My Drug
Tell me how to fix my drug. I’ll gladly yield my chains to the pill that gives me no high, no pleasant side effect, just the ability… Read more “Tell Me How To Fix My Drug”
Easter Present from Me! FREE BOOK!
It’s tough when your anxiety is in the way of you, like, being awesome. Or saving your best friend from jail–or yourself from a molesting creep teacher–or… Read more “Easter Present from Me! FREE BOOK!”
Flower Girl
How is it a gift to be delicate and pleasing when the winds and storms of thine ungentle cares crush me, demanding, yet hating the coarse strength… Read more “Flower Girl”
We Manage Us
You make me queasy. You make me long to sleep the day away and never leave this quilted, padded hole, where no one can find me. You… Read more “We Manage Us”
To Do
To Do: 1. Eat, shower, take my meds 2. Brush teeth–brush the toddler’s teeth. 3. Call whoever feds my life and tell them ‘nevermind.’ 4. pay the… Read more “To Do”
Coming Out About You
When it came the time to tell your story, the only traces I found of you were a collage of shallow memes and a cry of art… Read more “Coming Out About You”
Tell Me I’m Alive
Tell me I am the amber gold of your fallen leaves, the ones not found and pressed between your pages. Tell me I am the winter fog… Read more “Tell Me I’m Alive”