Battle Behind the Minds Eye

Ode to Anxiety:

Your touch… invisible.
But your whispers… so loud.

None can see you…
yet you haunt me.

You devour my every waking remembrance…
with your noise.

I feel bare before you…
as you strip me to nothing,
acting as if you are my guidance… my aid… my friend.

But behind it all…
you stand just as you are:
a beast… ever trapped within me.

While I hold the chain to your collar…
you hold the shrinking cage to my mind.

Who shall win today…
you…
or I?