Challenge
Make Me Anxious
Title. Whether it's a mismatched title and body text, prose written to bring forward feelings of anxiety, an anxious poem, a stream of anxious thought - if you feel it will incite anxiety, I want to see it! Any style, any subject matter.
Rock and Hard Place
A ledge makes a sharp, cutting fulcrum
Unnatural to my center of gravity
Perched upon a destiny
Invites hindsight to laugh--giddy and cruel
All the life behind me
Leans me forward toward the sounds of traffic
All of the relief before me
Is only halfheartedly resistant
What's known, the past, is solid
With consequences etched in stone
What's not lies ahead, with lies
The future is a hard place
Is there a point
Not quite in free fall
Not quite in retreat
Where I can continue, laughing, too?