Arts & Culture Poetry

Poem: ADHD, anxiety, and me

Here comes ADHD

She is imaginative, inventive, her mind forever wandering

She can be whoever she wants to be

Is she able to bring her thoughts into creations?

She forgets, she procrastinates, sensory overload

Here comes anxiety

She is responsible, careful, wise

She can do whatever she wants to do

Is she able to go through with it?

She is exposed, fearful, cries

Here I come

I am hoping, wishing, dreaming

Who really am I?

I am a quitter, pessimistic, distressed

— Now read this backwards

 

[trx_infobox style=”regular” closeable=”no” icon=”icon-feather” color=”#000000″ bg_color=”#FFF646″ top=”inherit” bottom=”inherit” left=”inherit” right=”inherit”]“I was born in Toronto, raised in Guelph. I’m a second year sociology student at the University of Guelph. I love the places where I’ve lived, I’ve travelled, and people I’ve met. I write to express my gratitude as well as my grief towards what has transpired to make me who I am today.” —Fatima Buela[/trx_infobox]

Photo courtesy of Fernando Pereira via CC0

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