Inconvenient Thoughts

This is about dealing with anxious thoughts.

Tugging at my footstep

Pulling on my pants

The voices in my mind

Are such inconvenient children

Who cry at the grocery store

Who tantrum on the sidewalk

Who won't stop talking

When there is work to be done

And then

When I'm finally sleeping

From exhaustion

Caused by them

They wake me up in the middle of the night

To tell me they are scared

And thirsty.

Come to me

My children

Let me gather you around

And cover you with kisses.

Why are you crying my little ones

Let me listen to your stories

Tell me

Your pains and your fears

Their stories are so true

So sweet and so sad

That we weep together

In the graveyard of the past

Gently sobbing

Laying sorrow down to rest

At last...

And the morning light fades

Biding the night

Goodbye

While the sun rises

In perfect silence.

Reviews

[Stan Lee]

Lol, I liked the metaphor of thoughts like children tugging on your pants and waking you up at night feeling scared and thirsty. This was great. Thanks for sharing. :)

[Chip Murison]

Thanks Andronicus. :-)

[Tbear]

Awww I totally relate to this .. oh the hours upon hours lost but were we to have the opportunity to live our lives over again, would we choose a childless life? I strongly doubt it.. They oft times replaced the light and made the dark bright :)

[Chip Murison]

Hi Tbear. I think you missed my point in the poem.

[Tbear]

Depends on the frame of mind and how lucid ones mind when reading... grief... grieve.. sorrow.. hugs dear man

[Chip Murison]

Ha ha. No worries. :-)