Heartbreak

It starts with a silent, numbing, overwhelming nothingness
Confusion clouds my mind and I can't seem to clear it
A thousand questions flood through my subconscious
But I can't concentrate, why doesn't anything fit?
Then the pain begins to blossom deep in my heart
An indescribable, torturous, soul-wrenching feeling
Stretching it's venomous vines along my nerves
Reaching my extremities with such force that I'm reeling
The ground falls away beneath me and I'm falling
Into the black, seemingly bottomless pit of pure despair
It doesn't matter how tightly I curl my body up
Hugging my knees to my chest while I gasp for air
Tears that I don't remember crying staining my cheeks
The vicious bites of my fingernails making my palms red
A hopeless, unbearable emptiness seems to drown me
I give up trying to breathe, this water is just too hard to tread.