Category: Poetry

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 25

Day 25: “Anxiety”

My brain likes to make up stories

Not fun, heartwarming

Tuck-your-kids-in-bed kind of stories

No, they’re unnecessary

Disturbing

Wake-up-screaming kind of stories

Like why do I have a recurring thought that my cat will make it onto my balcony

And fall off

And why did I have a different thought today that my dog

(Who lives with my mom back home)

Would make it onto my balcony

(But in my head it wasn’t even my balcony—it looked different)

And jump onto my patio furniture

(That I don’t have)

And step onto the concrete ledge

(My balcony has steel bars)

And fall off

Horrifying

Unnecessary

Yet involuntary

I didn’t ask to have that thought

Yet it happened

I just have to pray I’m not psychic

And hope it’s just anxiety

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 19

Day 19: “Reframe”

My brain is tired

Our apartment has bugs

Silverfish, the grossest kind

We still need to finish putting together furniture

So we can finally be moved in

5 months later

But

I did the dishes the other night,

With few complaints

My cat has been cuddly

And my partner and I are watching “Temptation Island”

It’s been a good week so far

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 18

Day 18: “Tomorrow’s Tomorrow”

I’m in a constant battle with productivity

I’m tired, okay

It makes it hard to want to do

Annyyythinnnggg

So the dishes pile up in the sink

And I put off a shower

And I take a nap that turns into 8 hours

I’ll get to everything tomorrow

Tomorrow is the day

Which tomorrow will actually be the day?

My partner told me I should take a social media break

My mom said I should take more vitamin b

Maybe that will fix me