When Anxiety Comes for a Visit

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 anxiousAnd find that it presses in but does not ariseOr 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 triedAnd 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 discomfortAs 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.