DEAR ANXIETY
Dear Anxiety
You make them wake up with nightmares in their head
Voices repeating in the back of their head
Why cant you just leave them alone
Oh so old
And afraid of being alone
That’s when the voices are so low
Get so loud
6th-grade year
All alone
Or feeling alone
Home alone
Felt like a punch in the stomach
Wasn’t prepared for that
How could they tell anyone?
They don’t know how
But deep down even if they did
There was nothing that they could say
Nothing they could do to take this pain away
Saw it as their own battle
Face to face
They would lay awake at night
Staring at the ceiling
Their mind winning
They’ve been trying to get out of that place
Running from the feeling
Of being lonely
Of being lost
Of being sick
When the lights are off
The feeling of being anxious
And screaming to God
Praying to take this pain away
To only get nothing in replace
They’d cry in bed
As they tossed and they turned
And as they turned and they tossed
The doctors gave them medication
The pastor told them to pray
They did both
Nothing has changed
So they fantasize about being gone every day
They became a good actor every day
But when the lights turn off they aren’t the same
Drowning themselves in tears
Everyone going through the pain
But don’t know how to admit it
Because we are all just too afraid
What do they say?
All of these kids are glued to the pain
If they are honest they may not be looked at the same
Everything people wanted them to be
Is what they are dying to be
But everything they really are
Is what people don’t want them to be
They need to know that they aren’t in this alone
Others are struggling too
Waking up in tears
Falling asleep in their own puddles
Thinking that they can’t ever get out
Terrified that God has tallied their sins
They think their life is a bad book
Just keep reading
Everything that people are thinking of who they are
Is far from the truth
They wish they could open up
And let things loose
But they can’t when the devil’s pulling on their noose
So they keep things bottled up
But He won’t stop them from pulling and throttling back this time
He’s not gonna keep them trapped like this
They can’t get out of bed
They weren’t made to act like that
Pack up your bags
He won’t be able to stop you from it
You don’t have to be a slave
Not to your voices in your head
Taking a belt to these demons
Who whisper dispare into your ears
Ignore the naysayers
they stand and stare when you’re near
Move forward
Take your bruises
And your lumps
You fell down
But got back up
You have the torch
So light things up
Set fire to the demons
Look at them now
They aren’t laughing at you
Say to them
Now look at the one
being tortured and punched
Now who’s the one
Closing every door that you want
Don’t look away from us
You better turn yourself around
We’re not done with you
Watching your moves
On your back
Stalking you too
Don’t try to ruin others
We’ll be stopping you too
We can’t get what you took from us back
You told us to end our life
And we nearly got killed for that
You took us down
But we got right back up
We were lost
and found like that
You told us things
You said we weren’t these things
But others begged to differ
You told us everything that you hated in us
but others begged to differ
You tried to bury us with anxiety and depression
But they reached in
and put hope inside of us
We’re done with you
You can’t control us
The devil can’t hold us
we’re walking away from the old us
And getting a refund for all of the lies that you told us
You knew we would find a way
We found our escape
So quick story on this poem.. I wrote it for my final in English class for Wednesday..and I though I would share it with you all.
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