The Colors of Anxiety

Like the colors of each season, my brain alters to adapt

This chaotic landscape doesn't permit me to react.. in time to save my disordered mind

All I can do is inhale the vibrance of each shade from red dirt to green shrubbery...until I find what calms the nerves enough to progress forward and watch my breathing slow

Now I can observe the colors clearer and keep them from mixing together

But before I know it comes the blinding white snow.

and what have I to show for the time elapsed between the fading yellow and oranges into green and blues into white and gray?

Very little until I learn to harness this crippling anxiety.