I Like To Hear Myself Write

When I write, the one I hope hears it

Is me.

Not a stranger and definitely not family

Sometimes it's for friends to hear,

Or rather people in the past

Because my heart wants closure with those

I haven't talked to in a while,

But really I am the one who needs the words.

I write to let out feelings, to clear my head,

But at the end of whatever I've written

I learn

The things I should do but don't.

I give myself more advice that I don't take

Than anyone I've heard of

But my words are my therapy, my freedom

From the ever present anxiety that constricts

My life as well as my arteries

Something I've tried so hard to shake

But like the way glitter sticks to everything touched,

Anxiety does not separate itself from me;

It has found a viable host and

Leeches on without consent.

So when I write, I write for myself.

I write to empower, to prove, to strengthen myself

Because my words mean my survival

And without them, I

Would drown in my own mind.

 

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