Uneasiness.

How do you prevent thoughts from
reentering when they have barged in
like robbers on a licentious spree
to break and reclaim the night.

When they have polished your attitude
and you enter life in a race,
without realizing they are driving.

- it's impossible, they say,
to unrestrictedly live -

I spend too many hours flirting with day's sun,
back against the bark of trees, naive to
the property these thoughts are stealing,
drinking energy and endurance until I
cannot bolt.

And I am reminded to:
Create instead of dwelling on the past,
personify all emotion until they
bleed onto paper,
work through opposing thoughts as if
words can convince them to vaporize.

And I concur, writing relieves anxiety,
but it doesn't fully heal the fear of
the unknown.

Because writing a poem about these trespassers,
doesn't clear my mind

enough.

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Written 8/18/14 @ 9:17 PM