Disclaimer: If the anxiety that you experience is not your own,
This is for you. In other words,
If it visits but does not reside.
In other words,
If you don’t believe
That there is a reason to be anxious
And find that it presses in but does not arise
Or generate from deeply held beliefs
That you nurture inside your mind.
So, if it’s not your own, here’s some advice,
Or rather, something that I’ve tried
And found effective now and then.
When anxiety comes for a visit,
I don’t just welcome it in,
I wrap it up in my embrace.
I pull it in, pull it in, pull it in.
Not the worry but the feeling of discomfort
As I would a laughing child who tries
To wiggle its way out
Of my embrace.
And upon encountering such love, desire, and acceptance,
It seems to flee. I don’t know
If that’s what really happens,
But that’s how it seems.
