It's like the world is crashing around me

I'm drowning and suffocating under my own breath

Like reaching for a branch that isn't there

Only to be plunged back under the water

Swirling around in circles

All the while telling myself everything will be okay

But I never felt comfort in saying that

Just as I think the storm has settled down

I hear a clap of thunder behind me

Only to be hit by hail so fast and so big

That I feel wounds all around my body

That need licking and healing

But never feeling the calm.

That is true depression and anxiety...