Anxiety Poem by Kaitlin Schmidt

Anxiety

Rating: 4.4


Standing still, feet planted
Body frozen, mind racing
Fear takes over
Like another entity
That controls all

It pleasures in knowing
No advancement has taken place
Nothing has been overcome just stillness

It delights in knowing
How much power it has
Over that insecure body
Manipulation will be easy

Soon anxiety sets in
Causing the body to tremble
The more intense the trembling becomes
The more the certainty declines

As the body gets sucked down
The path of anxiety
Fear becomes overjoyed
Its job is done

That little seedling it planted
Developed and blossomed
And is taking over
The body

As the body realizes the fear
Needs to be expelled
The body doesn't know how to
Get rid of it

So the insecure body
Succubus to the fear inside
Fear is overjoyed it did little
The body did the rest

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Buxton Shippy 27 July 2012

You capture the symptoms of anxiety very well. You give me hope; God bless you.

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Babatunde Aremu 21 January 2014

The symptoms of anxiety disorder are well presented in poetic form. This is wonderful. Keep writing

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Paul Reed 21 January 2014

The power of the mind is much under-rated as you describe here....you might enjoy my poem 'Call To Arms' in a similar vein

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Gajanan Mishra 21 January 2013

Nothing has been overcome just stillness. good one.

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Anil Kumar Panda 11 December 2011

beautiful ink Kaitlin.the flow and wording is nice.keep writing.

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Aftab Alam Khursheed 21 January 2015

So the insecure body Succubus to the fear inside Fear is overjoyed it did little The body did the rest nice concluding

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Jessyca Brooks 14 March 2014

I experienced this just yesterday. ]-[ Quite accurate, if you ask me.

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David L. Hatton 22 January 2014

a great subject with which we are all familiar, but not always aware our body's inevitable connection with our emotions; a good job capturing this, perceptive of what we all can identify with.

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Leslie Philibert 21 January 2014

Like this too; I would have liked (too) a little more background; the anxiety is here rather nebulous.

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Lyn Paul 21 January 2014

A superb write providing us with a great understanding of how hard it is living with anxiety. Thank you

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