Anxiety – Words & Feelings

{nerves}

I have not met many people who trigger my anxiety to the extent that you do. This is why connecting with you is both so challenging, and so rewarding too. Over the years, I have lost much of the desire to gain people’s approvals. It matters little to me whether someone I barely know orContinue reading “{nerves}”

1sec.

sometimes it takes a second to be brave. the moment of a single breath you can put aside your fears and in that time, so minuscule you can do something you had not imagined yourself doing. sometimes it takes a second to be brave: a second to not listen to anxious thoughts a second toContinue reading “1sec.”

fragile as a leaf.

i feel like a fragile leafstill (somehow) hanging from a branch;should the direction of your loveever change directioni would not be strong enoughto continue hanging onand i would slip, and fall,and fall,andfall.

Anxious in love.

The old dog.

His insides rumbled. It sounded like metal kitchen pans and pots tumbling against one another. He got up, though it was night and the streets were empty, but he was hungry now, starving actually, and it was not the moonlight that would stop him. In truth, this battered old bony dog was always hungry, butContinue reading “The old dog.”