Anxiety

As these blurry patterns spill from my lips

They haul with them the wind from my lungs

Remorselessly

I cannot breathe but consciousness holds on

My heart feels heavy

It’s pulse accelerating

It pounds through the surface of my chest

Like a fist against water

Shrewdness quickly flees and leaves behind only a hollow numbness

Thought now too incapable of occupying the great emptiness of my mind

The air thickens and tightens an itchy blanket over my trembling body

As a gasp of air eventually stutters it's way through me

It drops to the pit of my stomach

Sending a shiver throughout my broken figure

And feeling slowly fades away

Dawn floods my soul with torment

Anguish takes my hand

But it will not sell me certainty with my morning's song