Anxiety’s Attack

• Madeleine Bach, Grade 10, Mt St Michael's College -
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

I make you weaker in the mind
One known to linger there
In mid-space, mid-sentence
I make you crumble in the air
I haunt your thoughts and dreams
Always in the back of your head
Then BANG BOOM CRASH!
I hurt you and make you feel dead
I crowd around you in desperate times
I feed on all your fears
I watch you break down into tears
Every tear drop bringing me near
Can you do something, maybe
But that a small thought
There can be people out to save you
But does anyone really know me?