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The Anxious Feeling

By Gabriel Lyra

I have an anxious feeling
growing inside my stomach
spreading like water on a flat surface
a virus in a weakened immune system

trying to get out through my throat
hitting the doors of my fingernails
trying to escape through every tiny strand of hair

giving me cold sweats
all the way from my head
to the nerves from my legs

making every muscle come alive
every next heartbeat stronger than the last one
like drums coming closer and closer to my ears

blocking my steady breathing
feeding from the air from my lungs
and the liquid in my veins

making me lose track of the days 
of the weeks I’ve been falling
and the hours, minutes I got left.

I have an anxious feeling
that someday
this feeling
is going to kill me.

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