Protocol For Goodbye

I have anxiety and it gets worse when there is no set route of action. Just wrote this little tid bit about unscripted exits and goodbyes. Everyone says it differently which can lead to some anxiety

Your judgment steps

Hands, embrace, or do we just escape?

What do you want?

What do I give?

I sit on a sill

And still I watch you

Watching me

In breach of protocol

 

Exit stage left

Or was I right to drop the door?

Fall through the floor

To escape your lack of rules

Breaching me

Beseeching me

For a stand against free will

 

Goodbye

I'm Sorry

Reviews

[Trevor Barnett]

An excellent write Lindsey! You captured the essence of anxiety very well. Definitely a poem I can relate to. Thanks for sharing!

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It's the pits having Anxiety. I have Hypertension bad . I cant help I have it. My gosh there for awhile it was scary shaking like crazy like I had MS. And if it ever got to the max id feel a panic attack. Some just don't understand. I do all in my power to control all with breathing Faith beauty, but it's a sickness lives with you. Great write:)

[Simon Welsh]

Anxiety sucks. I know all too well. Great poem.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A telling piece that makes the reader think of obscurity within ones own mind, well done.

[Matt Sayer]

Choices pre-made, the script written in permanent marker, the unblinking observer hanging over shoulder and judging, jeering. Flaws plucked from the floor and shoved in face, a finger in the chest and a vice around the temples. Anxiety burns, furiously. Excellent poem, Lindsey :)

[marck milderman]

I like it, first and foremost. An instance in brevity that reminds me of me. The way it rhymes unexpectedly keeps me speaking. Lines 11-14 strike me, particularly.

[J. Alfred Prufrock]

Ok, i enjoyed this. its was short, but inspired. you brought a tough moment to life with words, and did so so well I was wondering about protocol myself and whether or not I should ask before writing you to tell you how much I liked it. lol Well done. You can count me as a fan.

your devoted servant
prufrock

[Avoiry]

I am glad you enjoyed this. I am a very anxious person so protocol makes my life easy. It is the little unscripted things I find so incredibly hard to do. Just thought it was kind of interesting in retrospect.

[J. Alfred Prufrock]

reflecting on unscripted moments can make the best poems. Thanks for sharing it. And one day, when I am more secure in my masculinity, I will let you do my lashes. lol NOw that would be a poem

[Chris]

All ways out have a cost
some we pay - some we don't.

[Avoiry]

That's a different way to look at it to make it more broad. Very true though.