Tag: myself

• Balloons and Paper Tigers

  Balloons and paper tigers imprison meThey chain me with myFears and failures and tenuous futureTo a life of anxiety and paralysis The growling paper tiger claws at theBalloon wall I’ve built around meThe awful noise of the snarling tigerThe popping balloonsMy own inner screamsStartle my sensesJar me into actionTo replace the popped balloonsI believe will…

  joegergen

  July 8, 2022

  poetry, writing

  anxiety, balloon, fear, myself, noise, paper tiger, poetry, writing