anxious about eating
anxious about not
anxious about alcohol
anxious smoking ***

anxious about playing games
anxious about rules
anxious about oceans
yet swimming fine in pools

anxious about tv shows
and movies about love
anxious about growing old
and when pushing comes to shove

anxious about animals
am I good enough?
anxious about friends and foes
and all of the above

anxious about new ideas
new places and new routes
anxious about being seen
at all though that is moot

anxious about getting sick
and scary operations
anxious about other’s thoughts
and deep-dark conversations

anxious about too much joy
anxious about crying
anxious about thoughts so dark
that I’ll find peace in dying

anxious about doctors
anxious nothing’s wrong
even more that something is
fearing treatments long