Anxiety Painkiller

Although I may seem like an aspiring student to you, on the inside my brain is being fucked.

Life keeps throwing shots at me but all I can do is bob, weave, and duck.

I can’t get away from my problems, like a rock and a hard place I feel like I’m stuck.

I can’t think straight, I haven’t slept right in days, my anxiety has me shook.

 

My only relief comes in the form it’s not supposed to, this isn’t life, it can’t be.

At this point I’m just trying to be all that I can be, not washed up like Marcus Camby.

I tell myself everything will be okay, but the thoughts just keep finding a way to sneak back in me.

Three Little Birds plays in the background, Bob Marley, letting me know that hey, life is a possibility not everything is about escaping this nook and cranny.

 

I met my savior my sophomore year, but his name isn’t Jesus. It’s not a person at all.

It’s a form of savor combined with generations of G-funks and flavor, my form of a last call.

I have done my eardrums and mind a favor, stumbling across something new much like the Apostle Paul.

Hip Hop saved my life, it woke my mind up to the real world as if I woke at 3:44 stumbling across the hall.

 

Hip Hop takes me to a new world where I can find peace within my own mind.

When I listen I feel like the Heavens are throwing me down a guideline.

I don’t have to live life cautious peeking out behind my blinds,

I finally defeated anxiety, the monster that has beaten me repeatedly like a crime.

 

So this I say to you teacher, this music is not a bad effect on young people’s lives.

This music has saved my life and kept me away from anxiety’s theoretical guns and knives,

Keeping my anxiety more insignificant than anything else I have tried.

School, work and other worrisome objects keep me up at night, but now I don’t mind because of the melody that keeps my mind occupied.

This is the music that saved my life.

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