Keep Going

In my head it’s always chaos,

but these days have made it known

the brain

is

going

and

going…

I’m an avid sufferer of hypochondria,

but today…today it seems so much

more.

There’s more truth in that voice telling me,

you might be next.

It’s the death toll rising,

the emptiness of the shelves.

People believing invincibility

is causing a lot of uncertainty.

Why isn’t anyone listening?

Am I the only one who hears that voice?

The continuous anxiety causing fires

through my head and stress that doesn’t

let me rest?

Is it too early to say

that maybe we will…

NEVERMIND.

I’ve forgotten

it does this to me,

the uncertainty of today.

Joanna Nellie Navarro

Joanna Nellie Navarro is special education teacher and dept. head at a middle school in Texas.