"Anxiety"
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i stand upon the stage listening to the voices of despair taunt my every thought casting doubts when hope appears tear stains on my cheeks i struggle to speak — the words i formulated rehearsed night after night in bathroom mirrors in the rush of traffic on sidewalks and cracked pavement sounding out every syllable every consonant as if i had forgotten my own language all of it gone — vanished into shadows leaving me to stand alone upon the world's stage listening to the echoes of my broken mind ©S.J.