my mermaid soul fears the sea,
the depths from which she came,
but the time is now to tumble turn,
to dive, to lose, to gain
my mermaid soul
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NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 6: my anxious life
That sense of dread, that
pull in the depths of
my stomach that
absorbs my days and steals my nights, that
smothers my thoughts with a heavy
blanket of angst. That
happy life that eludes me, that
love that never truly feels
real, only that dread that idles and
festers is solid and true.
what my anxiety doesn’t know
It doesn’t know boundaries.
It doesn’t understand when it’s appropriate
to flush my cheeks and inflame my chest.
It doesn’t know how to hold back
when my thoughts start spiralling
into a whirl of destructive what-ifs.
It doesn’t know it’s devouring me,
and all those around me,
with its catastrophic clauses.
It doesn’t know it’s not in charge
when it rages like a bull
in the china shop of my mind.
Even when the red rag starts fading,
it doesn’t know the exhausted angst
that still rampages my dreams.
For Day One of NaPoWriMo 2015: a poem about negation
Ladies: write your worries down in a journal, says anxiety study
Journalling can help alleviate workplace worries for women. (pic: istockphoto.com/AlinaMD)
If you’re a writer, you’re probably going to turn to pen and paper (preferably pristine new ones) when you’re going through a crisis (emotional, professional, romantic or otherwise). Who hasn’t trundled off to Paperchase or WHSmith in the search of some literary alleviation of stress, upset or trauma?
Well, apparently the thing that all writers know – Continue reading
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