Worry is like

having one’s hair

cut in the dark.

Not knowing

the outcome

yet not bold enough

to make some remark.

Too short?

Wrong color?

Beginning to

get flustered.

Dripping with hairspray

on a warm,

summer’s day.

Too busy to relax.

Too busy to play.

Spooky and pitch-black.

Worry is like that.

Matthew 6:25 says

“Therefore I tell you,

do not worry

about your life,

what you will

eat or drink;

or about your body,

what you will wear.

Is not life

more than food,

and the body

more than clothes.”