Sword Stroke

There is a particularly

fraught emotion

that I feel

at times:

anticipating a sword stroke

that does not come.

Instead,

I hollow out my eyes

while I am waiting.

Reviews

[Gaia Octavia]

I know the feeling well. It is often the punishments we needlessly create for ourselves that are the worst. Well done.

[Zugzwang]

Yes...we are often our own worst enemies in that respect. Well said.

[Firebird]

They say a coward dies a thousand deaths. I know that feeling well. The last two lines were very powerful.

[Zugzwang]

Yeah...not a nice feeling! Part of the rich tapestry of life and all that..

[jacob erin-cilberto]

anxiety...expecting the worse, even if it is not to come...feel this quite often, actually.

[Zugzwang]

Yep...not a lot of fun but part of life I suppose.

[DirectTangent]

Sometimes I look forward to anticipation.
Sometimes I don't want to know what is about to hit me.
Most times whatever occurs isn't whatever I was thinking ... no, convinced ... was going to strike.
We do ourselves injury in meantime.

With concise, well-timed words, you present the manner in which anticipatory anxiety gets us every time.
As always, nicely done, Z.

[Zugzwang]

Thanks, Tangent. You summed it up perfectly. We all feel it sometimes ,I think...and probably wish we didn't

[alifeacoustic]

What is worse, the sense of it coming or seeing it coming? Im with you friend, if it comes, let me be blind to it.

[Zugzwang]

Yep, there's nothing like a panic attack or whatever the hell that is...going mental about something that 99.999% of the time never happens.