The Wave Poem by Amanda Shelton

Anxiety takes me like a wave,
rolling over me choking me.

I reach for the shore and it
pulls me back in.

It grabs my heart squeezing tightly,
until I burst into flames and
I fall into ashes poof!

This ocean of emotion's is
chaotic and corrosive.

Rolling in the deep,
grinding teeth,
pulling hair,
and yelling at my future ghost
I have to get out of here!

Pounding in my memory,
beating on my heart,
anxiety is following me.

Toe to toe, row row row,
boom boom boom here we go.

Anxiety!