An alphabetical analysis of anxieties
Prologue
When you are gripped with an unknown fear
or get spooked in the dark night
Remember we all have our worries
And can suffer from a fright
The first step is understanding why
so you can accept the cause
Whether you suffered from a trauma
Or a reflex gives you pause
You are not an odd aberration
Or suffer alone in this
Remember we all have our worries
Some are detailed on this list.
“A” adopts ablutophobia
when you are scared of the tub
and grabbing hands are moist and lathered
and getting ready to scrub.
”B” brings about bogyphobia
And bogeys beneath your bed
Grabbing you by your appendages
To start chewing on your head
“C” comes with some Coulrophobia
The feeling that clowns can bring
after that prestigious profession
Was ruined by Stephen King
“C” contracts coronaphobia
As an epidemic spreads
If only everyone wore a mask
Our Grandma might not be dead
“D” drives deep the dromophobia
that huddles you by the street
waiting for the crossing sign to change
so the bus misses your feet.
“E” embeds enetophobia
when pointy pins prick your feet
piercing along your pained phalanges
and puncturing through your meat.
“F” forebodes felinophobia
and the clowder that follows
as cats are hissing and conspiring
to hunt you from the shadows
“F” finds foniasophobia
When a killer’s on your road
Your heart beats fast and your breath comes quick
As your brain squirms like a toad
“F” finds foniasophobia
As mass murderers go free
Like they haven’t caught the Zodiac
With his cyphered mystery.
“G” gives you Geniophobia
a concerning of the chin
of mandibles and protruding jaws
And the rows of teeth within
“H” hemorrhages hemophobia
a pulsing fear of the blood
seeping slowly down your pallid thigh
to commingle with the mud
“I” inflicts insectophobia
as bugs crawl across your skin
Stinging you with their envenomed tails
and burrowing deep within
“J” just has no phobias that jar
But there’s a few that won’t do
They’re antisemitic and racist
And full of a wrong world view
“K” can kindle kenophobia
a fear of the void of space
from free falling through the nothinginess
to vanish without a trace
“L” lurks with Lachanophia
A timidity of leafy greens
Of choking on parsnips or carrots
or an allergy to green beans
“M” metes out some mottephobia
A fear of fluttering moths
Chewing through your linen wear
Gnawing holes in your wash clothes
“N” nettles with Nyctophobia
Those nightmares that stalk the dark
With shadows that are following you
When you are lost in the park
“O” occurs when orinthophobia
draws black birds to every branch
Gathering on their lofty perches
Waiting for their pecking chance
“P” picks with pediophobia
Abhorring those porcelain dolls
Watching you from your mother’s cupboards
Judging you with glass eye balls
“Q” quavers with quadrophia
A qualm of the number four
Certain cultures think it sounds like death
And can bring it to your door
“R” rains down Ranidaphobia
A revulsion of green frogs
that are croaking in your swimming hole
And lingering under logs
“S” serves Syngenesophobia
When your relatives come by
They’ve brought their bags and are moving in
And won’t leave until they die.
“T” taxes with technophobia
A terror of new machines
For they’re coming to enslave us all
With their batteries and screens
“U” unearths Uranophobia
A fear of heaven most high
Where gods and goddesses sit and judge
Unheeding your mortal cry
“V” vexes with vestiphobia
When your clothes refuse to fit
And your patterns have clashing colors
With sweat stains in every pit
“W” whets wiccaphobia
When wild witches curse your name
Stirring spells into their cast cauldrons
And manipulating thanes
“X” exhibits xerophobia
A despair of drying skin
When no moisture can ever slake you
As you wither from within
“Y” yokes you with ymophobia
When you contradict some creep
Even when you know you’re right
Conflicts always cost you sleep
“Z” zeroes in on Zemmiphobia
Worry of the great mole rat
Crawling naked with tremendous teeth
From it’s native habitat
So when you stare into your own abyss
And feel your guts drop to your feet
Remember we all have our worries
And that’s what makes us complete