Look Straight Ahead

I stare ahead

Fish swimming

Inside the aquarium

Not looking elsewhere

Afraid the others

Will judge and wonder

What I am doing here

At the psychiatrist’s office

I am getting better

Not so afraid

Of who I am

…

I am disabled

Frozen by anxiety

Saddened by depression

Pained by fibromyalgia

But inside I am still

me

 

Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – aquarium

Totally Tanked

Set me in front of

An ocean view cut away

Let me hear the water move

Let me see the fish swim

Set me in front of

A salt water world

Let me watch the coral breathe

Let me see the seaweed dance

…bring the sea life closer to me

Let me take in their world

from my aquarium.