Writing Prompt

see her there

doing her homework

what if maybe

i just say hi,

see that

shortness of breath

and tears prickling

her eyes,

yes that’s me,

hi!

i’m anxiety

and her,

she’s my host

my friend and enemy

my victim of this crime

i protect her

at least she thinks i do

because styrofoam,

yes that’s bad,

and what about love,

you say?

yes that’s dangerous as well

she does my bidding,

i control her:

buried in e...

I am the pattern you cannot unsee,

The tiny mouths that gape and grin,

The clustered voids that writhe and creep,

The broken honeycomb within.

I bloom in petals, sponges, pores,

In places soft, in places worn,

I plant my seeds inside your thoughts,

And leave your every sense forlorn.

Your skin itches when you meet my gaze,

Your stomach turns with sudden spite,

I am the swarm behind your eyes,

Th...

A million thoughts

A million words

A million songs

A million verbs

They run into each other, never letting the other one end, flowing & overlapping until there’s just chaos.

The background noise is just- there. There’s no silence.

She sits, stuck in the chair, stuck standing, stuck just thinking, stuck staring into space. Honed in on something, but it’s never the right thing.

She can never con...

Why are you scared of me?

I’m almost everywhere

I show you the speed limit

Count the months

Reveal your age

And your scared of me?

Your height

Your shoe size

Your phone percentage

Your GPA

Your math homework

Your test scores

Your money

You see me almost everywhere

Yet you still fear me

I’m just arithmophobia

Why are you scared of numbers?...

Vibration. Constant vibration, constant movement. consistency, consistency, constant control. Always and again. Always and again. Spreading in my wake. I spread and I reach and I grow. Making my way through the maze of this uncanny red light i sense invariably. Invariably. Satisfaction but only once i’ve been through it all. Every crimson shaft. None untouched. No corner I have yet to discover. ...

I cling to the mind with hooked talons. I dig in and guide their lives backwards, hindered and miserable. They know I am in complete control. They know they shouldn’t be so totally under my thumb, they know it’s irrational, and yet I win again and again. They think it is fear, but I am so much more. There is a sickness inside each one of them and I feed on their suffering. I manifest in different ...

Lying on the hard floor,

Head all full of nothing,

Sick to my stomach-

Thoughts keep on running.

Tell myself its fake,

So maybe it will go away,

Till it grips so tight,

I burst.

Showers and boiling hot baths

To drown out the deafening pain

Medicine I rarely take

Cause I an scared of the risks it makes

Write to cope,

Heat to cope,

Cry to cope,

Yet still can’t cope.

It goes uphill,

Till it dosen...

I hear a confession

a broken heart

I hear a world falling apart

I know its time

for me to appear

I know its time

my disease is severe

Flowers bloom

from within your lungs

flowers bloom

as the girl succumbs

Cough cough

over and over again

cough cough

there's no help for them

I have but one cure

but its too unlikely

I have but one cure

oh isn't it lovely

Coughing flowers

mixing with blood

cough...

Trypophobia; that’s what they call me.

Apparently, I’m nothing special to most people. Just creep them out a bit.

But there is this one person who is terribly afraid of me.

The last time they encountered me was one day on a stroll through the forest with their family. I was sitting there, waiting, my hole patterns resting on a leaf.

They’d just peeked over for a second, the human, but that wa...

I start with the toes. You feel the tingle there, wondering if it’s something you stepped on, or a splinter. You shrug it off. You forget about it, but then I hit your knees with pain. Those are the first bones to go. Then your arms, elbows…You can’t ignore the pain now, and wonder if it has something to do with the toe pain you felt last week but is now long gone. The doctor says you’ll have to w...