Anxiety Rap

Just look at you

You don't know what you do

Your poetry is so pure and so true

I want to say “hi”

But I can't

I'm paralyzed

By this feeling inside

It's anxiety

getting deep inside a' me

gripping my chest

crushing me and I'm feeling oppressed

leaving me depressed

Just wanna say

how nice your hair looks today

but there's no way

I can't get away

Can't get outta my head

That's why I said

I'd rather be dead

Just know that I'll keep strugglin instead

But this anxiety

It's getting deep inside a' me

gripping my chest

can't help it if I'm feeling stressed

but I'm trying my best

And believe me

It's not easy to be

Me,

If you could just see

What it's like to have all this anxiety

Like thousands of spiders crawlin all over my skin

Can feel them writhin

And it's terrifyin

Like searing hot chains

Holding me down, filling me with this pain

Got nothing to lose and nothing to gain

Can't think of anything but getting away

But there's no way

I'm stuck in my head

That's why I said

I'd rather be dead

Just know that I'll keep strugglin instead

But this anxiety

It's gotten deep inside a' me

Gripping my chest

And I'm in great distress

This is not a test

My mind is like a bureaucracy

Can't even submit a thought for inquiry

Without signing in triplicate and paying a fee

It's under extensive review

To ensure nothing I say is to crude

Don't want anyone to think that I'm rude

Feeling like I might as well be nude

Because I can see

Everyone's looking at me

Leaving me in agony

I'm rooted here like a tree

Don't know if I'll ever be free

Of this anxiety

It's so deep now inside a' me

Gripping my chest

Crushing me and I'm feeling oppressed

Leaving me depressed

And I'm lost in this sea of smiling masks

Tightly gripping knives behind all of their backs

And I can't relax

Can't tell friend from foe

I've got nowhere to go

All these fears in my head just might overflow

So I can't say hello!

And I know you'll say no

That's why I'm stuck in my head

And that's why I said

That I would rather be dead!

Just know that I'll keep strugglin instead

With this anxiety

It's becoming a part a' me

Gripping my chest

Can't help it if I'm feeling stressed

But I'm trying my best

Even though I can't breath

My mind is like a swarm of angry bees

And they're stingin me

Deceivin me

Injecting venomous thoughts

In all my weak spots

Tyin my stomach in knots

And my self-esteem rots

And no matter how hard I try

Just to say “hi”

I'm still standing there mute

When you say “goodbye”

Because this anxiety

All that's left inside a' me

Gripping my chest

And I'm in great distress

This is not a test

Because there is no rest

When you're feeling this stressed