Prompt 4: Write a poem focussing on the creating an emotion that everyone feels without explicitly saying the emotion. I received the emotion anxiety.
Chewing and clawing and gnawing.
Burrowing under my skin like needles,
Puncturing my flesh and eating my blood--
Bursting inside my veins and in my brain.
Draining me dry,
Pumping in lies through my fears.
Breathing panic through my lungs,
Punching into my tissues and
Tearing into my skin.
Ripping and ripping.
It stings, it stings,
My skin sizzles in the paranoia.
I am useless,
Take me away--
Take everyone else away.
Tear out the demons eating into my stomach,
Pull out my heart; it beats too fast anyways.
Take it away, take it away, take it away!
The throbbing pain inside my brain,
Munching on my scattered thoughts.
What are they thinking?
They hate me, they hate me.
I know I'm gone; I am disappearing.
Don't bother looking for me,
I am useless anyhow.
Leave it alone
Because It never goes away.
It stays in my brain,
Hidden behind my apathetic eyes
And mixing with my insecurities.
Why can't I leave it behind,
That aching sense of danger
Only I stress over?
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A Collection of Short Stories and Poems
Short StoryThe title basically says it all. This will be a collection of really short stories and poems I have made recently in a creative writing class as warm-ups, so just sit back and enjoy a few chapters of random things based off of random prompts. This...
