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Khairat Abdul
Student @ Gombe State University
Anxiety is the only neighborhood I recognize
<p>It's scary here, almost unsettling</p><p>With shaky hands and teary eyes, anxiety built an entire neighborhood around me</p><p>It knows my name and it reaches out to me on a bright day; "come,let me sit with you for a while"</p><p>An each time I go back to it,like a feral dog wanting to be caressed. And somehow,just somehow, there's a strange peace I feel in it's presence. Once I wished for this anxiety to be gone— a thing to be forgotten. But I learnt, without it, there's a hollowness in me that can only be filled by it.</p><p>The sigh before the tears,the fall before the verdict,the moments of long silence,the days getting out of bed felt like a crime— I've breathed each and yet,I still love this feral companion. </p><p>The way the mind spirals back and forth between the uncertainty and the reality,there are nights when the heart rehearses all the ways I could break,I see the spiral before it begins—a tilt,a stumble ,a small failure— and I live in that "not yet" with the full horror of it's arrival. </p><p>Anxiety, you're no great companion but you're the one who stayed on the dark days. </p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
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