Have You Ever Felt Like Your Drowning?

Not in water but words and emotions

You fight the current and

Wherever you turn

Dark thoughts and feelings follow you

About how you hate everyone in your life

Yet at the same time

You care so much about them

You drag yourself down deeper

Some days you think you've surfaced

And can escape

But your immediately sucked back under

A victim of the sea again

You try to scream but the words clog in your throat

Suffocating and hurting you until

Your chest feels like it will explode with pain

You flail in the water

Your energy fading

And then the thought that

You've been fighting

Swims up to your face

Blindingly obvious and your so

Tempted to let it have its way to

End the pain

End the suffering

End the drowning.

Sometimes people fight

And pull free from that deadly torrent

Most often than not people let it claim them

A victim of the sea again.

So let me ask you again;

Have you ever felt like your drowning?