Anxiety

Sometimes anxiety wants to dance with me. Most of the time I'd like to sit this one out.

Sometimes anxiety

Is just

Stray synapses firing.

Sometimes anxiety

Wants to dance

With me

You know the moves,

She says,

You know the steps.

I tell her once I learned the box step,

Tried to learn the cha-cha-cha,

But mostly I make up the steps

As I go along.

Sometimes I am rather hard to follow.

Anxiety says

You’re telling me!
You never let me lead!