Poems

Drowning

The world around me's breathing,

And I am suffocating,

I look around and everyone seems fine,

Except me...

I feel isolated,

Like I'm drowning on my own,

And I wonder why you let me go,

Why I let you go...

The pressure builds up in my chest,

Until I can no longer breath,

The world around makes sense to me,

I make sense to the world around...

I'm just the person who sits quietly alone,

Never interacting,

Because,

I can't...

I open my mouth and no words come out,

I try to scream out,

But all I feel is silence filling my lungs,

The oxygen leaving me...

I'm drowning in the fears,

And pain I've felt through the years,

My tears choke me,

As I fall deeper and deeper...

Further into the depths of the ocean,

Drowning while everyone else is breathing,

The anxiety grips me tight,

The depression lets me go...