ANXIETY (2008)

Anxiety runs through my veins…

It destroys the peaceful stream,
It flows producing heat and flames,

Hidden and confused…
It shouts at someone to reject loneliness,
It tells someone else to do the unknown,
It whispers me how desperate my blood is…

It murmurs to my ear how sweet my life could be.

The Scream. An agonized figure wails against a blood red Oslofjord skyline

in Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893), National Gallery, Oslo.