#anxious poems on Hello Poetry

stillhuman Jan 2021

My eyes sting.
Today is one of those days
where my voice trembles
my hands are sweaty
and cold
and while I stay quiet
my mind is yelling at me,
the sound of static
makes it hard to answer
people's questions
and I tumble on my words
heavy step by heavy step
in this conversation
and a voice says
"You're pathetic".
It sounds familiar
It is mine afterall,
but it's not angry
It's sad
humiliated
tired
and for some reason
scared.

#anxious #socialinteractions #awkardness #pathetic #expectations #discomfort #fear

Shannon Soeganda Dec 2020

Utter Discomfort

You dismantled my ego like how she broke my heart.

You,

your boundaries,

and your strong sense of self.

Allow me to detach from us.

It's never pleasant to work on our unhealed, anxious attachment style. I truly detest my irrational fear of abandonment. But at least I'm facing it now, and not running away from it.

#utter #discomfort #anxious #attachment #style #fear #abandonment #bpd #borderline #personality

Pachi Nov 2020

Anxiety

Bling
Bling
...
Bling

The bombardment of messages was deafening
Every new message pounded at my head
As I wore a pillow over my head, protecting

Bling

My eyes closed shut as my body shook
Rage started to brew, but
I knew better than to look
At the betraying notifications, this much was true

Bling

Overwhelmed,
desperate,
frustrated,
disappointed

Bling

"Patterns seemingly can't be broken"
Were some of the last thoughts on my brain
As I fell into a deep sleep in a sea of tears

Bling

Just some feelings I've felt as of late. Considering the pandemic and the lockdown, I haven't been taking care of myself all that too well in communicating with the outside world.

This is a short way of putting my feelings out there, but also an opportunity to try to connect with others who are feeling the same way at the moment. We got this. The year is almost over. Reach out to close friends and family members. Make new connections. And if you just need a stranger to vent out, message me. Keep pushing through :)

#anxiety #frustrated #anxious #nervous #overwhelmed #disappointed

Zack Ripley Nov 2020

Natural disaster

Anger. Anxiety. Depression. Fear.
Imagine these feelings
Are a natural disaster.
What would they be?
Would they be an earthquake?
Making it feel hard to stay upright?
Do they create rifts
that drive you apart from loved ones?
Are they a tsunami?
Building up until one day, they burst, drowning you?
Or are they a tornado?
Just destroying everything in its path?
If you can find a way to explain what it feels like
When you're angry, anxious, depressed, or afraid,
it can be a good start to managing it.

#understand #explain #angry #anxious #depressed #scared #tornado #earthquake #poetry #tsunami

mae Nov 2020

it’s not the cold.

i thought i was shaking because of the cold.
i thought i was shaking as a simple reaction to the weather.
for so long i believed that.
and now i sit here,
shaking,
uncontrollably,
no way to escape it.
the anxiety makes it’s way down my body,
starting with a headache and then trouble breathing and then pain in my stomach and then my hands and feet begin to sweat.
and all i can think,
is how i need you here,
to hold me,
tell me how to fix myself,
help me out of this place,
please i beg you.

but i don’t know where you are.

hopefully sometime i’ll get out

#anxiety #stress #anxious #poem #poetry #alone #lonely #hold

lilac Nov 2020

could you be mine?

yes or no
☐ ☐

it's your fault my friends are worried about me,
no, it's my fault, i asked, but you answered,
the wrong answer,
not even a proper answer,
i feel so toxic, i feel ***** in a way,
i miss you, i miss us,
i want to cry again, im holding it in,
it hurts.

yes or no
☐ ☒

based on true events
the end.

#couples #rejection #sadness #sad #love #depressed #lonely #hurting #worried #anxious

Martyna Maselskyte Nov 2020

stillness

i sit still in my room
haveing planned out
my future

believing
i have a gift to predict it

i sit still in my mind
as the light
of the hopefulness
slowly fades

to a flicker in the sky
far away

during these locked up weeks, hopefulness starts to fade and i'll do anything to hold on to even a breath of it

#hopelessness #thinking #anxious #sad #sky #light

Mitch Prax Nov 2020

Haiku

How long has it been
since you felt the butterflies
flying from within?

3:49 PM
5/11/20

#haiku #butterfly #butterflies #love #romance #romantic #nervous #anxious #anxiety #cute

CI Thomas Nov 2020

scared

Scared of the dark
Scared of the light
Scared of the noise
Scared of the silence

Scared of feeling too much
Scared of not feeling enough
Scared of making friends
Scared of being alone

Scared of yes
Scared of no
Scared of hello
Scared of goodbye

Scared of would've been
Scared of should've been
Scared of could've been
Scared of never been

Scared of everything
Scared of nothing
Scared of always being scared
Scared of me

#scared #afraid #anxious