March 28, 2023
Worry
By Amba Gale
If you worry, notice it.
And laugh.
You need not bow to the
internal voice that craves,
more than anything,
to grab you and swallow you and take you
to a dark place.
That does not help,
at all, at all.
“Will I ever be able to write again?”
“Perhaps Spring won’t come this year.”
“When will this stupid war be over?”
“Will we ever get to travel safely again?”
“Am I eating too many carbs?”
“Will the weather ever clear up?”
“What if my blood pressure goes too high?”
“What if…what if…what if…”
The possibilities for worry are countless.
And then, I saw,
when I stopped and noticed,
the only, only, only thing
such ruminations give birth to
is living
In
Fear.
And, so, I got up from my chair,
went outside,
breathed the clean cold air
and danced.
