Poem: "Anxiously Awaiting!" by Rich Orth

 Anxiously Awaiting!

©Rich Orth 7/12/2023 6:28pm 

These recurring dreams

Impressed upon me

Fears once sequestered 

Eulogies allegorically ...played

....repeated..... displayed

Unchained... emancipated one roams

Alone.....I falter...

Fearful of unknown...

Fearful... of dead of night

Fearful.... of whispers

Fearful of this dreadful plight

I believe our madness

emanates from within

begins with

a foundation of trepidation

topped by an unstructured mind

and in time we find

we have constructed

our own asylum

where there is

no sanctuary...no sanity

calamity your bricks

agony your mortar...

apathy your key

to your new home

which is misplaced

and if displaced

shall free you

as anxiously awaiting

are all those emotions

you have been forsaking

anxiously awaiting

for you to escape your mind

anxiously awaiting

If you are so inclined