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Anxiety


I can do this. I know I can. This is what I have been training for my whole life. But this is not what I excel at. I am not a poet, I can't write what I feel. I can barely tell myself what I feel. Does it need to rhyme? I can do this: Feeling into thought, Thought into words, Words written down. Is it any good? Why do I have to be told? I can do this. I need to do this. I am finished. I think it is okay, But the question is, Will they?
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