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Anxiety

I should let go of this bleak situation
Drift away from all that I say
Don't hold me to this
This is my ugly side the most vile thing about me

I should try to recompose myself
My mind's out racing common sense
Air is getting harder to inhale
My words aren't coming out right

I need to get my feet on the ground
Before the ceiling swallows me whole
Lost in a panic over nothing important
Your mind just started thinking and hits the sweet negative
Now you're bawling your eyes out debate with yourself

Go get a shovel and bury yourself in the trench
This is making a mountain out of a molehill
This is breaking down before the tragedy 

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Hugh

Mon 29th Oct 2018 08:40

A moving read.Well done.

DESMOND CHILDS

Mon 29th Oct 2018 06:35

Really good poem Damon, well thought out and expressed.



All the best des

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Damon Blackery

Sun 28th Oct 2018 23:41

No.

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Damon Blackery

Sun 28th Oct 2018 21:31

I'm not a king.

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walkingman

Sun 28th Oct 2018 19:36

Yes, I agree with Hannah, some very good lines.

Also well-expressed feelings.

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Sun 28th Oct 2018 19:07

Some very good lines in here, in what I think is an important poem.

Hannah

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