Anxiety is my song and dance

 

The room is a carousel

Spinning round and round in my mind

Air rushes into my lungs— too much too fast

And I’m lost in the familiar song and dance.

The voices are raging in a thunderous backbeat,

Culminating into one ominous roar.

It’s deafening it’s unbearable

It reverberates into my veins as

Blood rushes through the body

And darkens the mind, inflaming my sight.

The room is a violent shade of suffocating red

And my breath is quickening

My body is convulsing

My mind is racing

But not one sideways glance notices

The ferocious spirit taking me over

Everyone is lost in their own song and dance.