Anxiety 

Maya Fritz
Maya Fritz is a 14 year old writer from Maryland. In her free time, she enjoys musical theater, violin, running, and painting her cat in various positions (to be clear her cat is not being painted, the canvas is).

Tendrils of my gray fingers twist and crawl  Infiltrate the chinks in your armor  Coil and squeeze around your mind I will exploit you from within  I afflict cold chills, sweaty palms upon you: […]

Tendrils of my gray fingers twist and crawl 

Infiltrate the chinks in your armor 

Coil and squeeze around your mind

I will exploit you from within 

I afflict cold chills, sweaty palms upon you: eerie instruments of my success 

Vivid scenarios of doom; One wrong move will spiral into ruin

Bypass coherent thought with omnipresent hysteria

I tip the fragile scale of your sanity 

Replace confidence with bleak doubt 

My whisperings of panic have unbraided you

The despair leads to surrender of the treasure like no other

The hidden door to your subconscious 

Leaving me alone at the control panel; I’ve changed the password, your entry is denied