Siren

A poem about having anxiety around happiness

Photo by Alexey Soucho on Unsplash

Happiness
signals alert

Warmth in my heart
turns into a siren
that blares loudly
in my chest

I wanna run
and hide
from this intruder
within me
that makes me
lose my breath
and tremble

It’s the very thing
I want that scares me
— the resonance of the past
still reigns

I don’t know
what to do

But I’ll keep revealing
and I’ll keep peeling
the layers of my being

Until I become
whole again.

(365 Days of Poetry — Day 147)

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