Procrastination is anxiety. [Rap]

I read a sentence

from a teacher of mine,

that turned out to be a landmine.

It forced me to realign,

to redesign,

redefine

my entire life,

all of my strife,

everything I considered

to be part of me,

to be hard on me,

to be what I am, what I do.

She restarted me.

She said,

“Procrastination is just anxiety.”

It’s all in my head.

Here I was, I thought I was lazy,

Mind goin’ hazy

at the thought of the craziness

of what I gotta do next,

why give it my best

when I can just rest?

Rather wait ’til I’m stressed

to do my work,

But I digress.

Procrastination is fear,

fear of rejection,

fear of dejection,

lack of perfection,

lack of connection,

an ugly reflection,

projection of negativity

stunts our productivity,

takes creativity outta me,

and the couch is callin’ me.

‘Cause procrastination 

is just anxiety,

A form of escapism

common in society,

A psychotic event 

with a stigma of propriety,

Mind is rioting

against the flow of time,

It’s tiring

Trying to make rhyme

And reason of events,

Why they flow on this course

of universal design,

Flyin’,

Struggling to make sense,

Struggling to make rent,

Bent

On waiting,

Debating, negating,

’Til inspiration is fading,

Thoughts are degrading,

We spend eternity pondering,

Mind wanderin’

Away from reality

Tryin’ to cover

Its habitual denial

Its trial of sanity,

But really it’s simple

Everyone has their vanity,

Tellin’ them who are they

to test their humanity?

Who are they to test their mortality?

Who are they to do,

to create something new,

To just take a few chances,

Feed their expanses,

To follow romances,

Go out and dance

with the winds of the earth,

Live up to our worth,

‘Cause love

Is the purpose of birth

The girth

of our entire existence.

Anxiety is fear

and fear is resistance.

So this very instance

Let’s free ourselves

from this perpetuity,

the continuity

of the deafening scrutiny

illusion of incongruity.

What can we do 

to lessen this insecurity?

Slow down.

Tone down.

Ground.

When oneness is found

and breath is the sound,

fears are drowned,

and stillness abounds.

Harmony surrounds,

love replaces contraction,

act no longer abstraction,

distraction

finds no reaction,

Action

is no longer danger,

because fear

is not our nature.

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