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Drowning

Deep Anxiety

By Tiffany HamiltonPublished 7 years ago 1 min read

That feeling of not being able to breathe

That feeling of wanting the pain to leave

Rolling up my sleeve

To fight

To fight for my sanity

To win the war against anxiety

Not knowing what’s inside of me

Emotions wrapped up in a blanket of fear

Fear of what resides in my mind

Things that are not so kind

To me

To myself

Myself

I am being mean to myself

STOP IT!!

Just … Stop it

I’m calm now

I forget what I was crying about

I switch

Just like that

Sounds psychotic to me

Address the fucking problem!

Calm down

It’s not that deep

But it is

And you can’t swim

That’s why you are drowning

sad poetry

About the Creator

Tiffany Hamilton

I am just a pebble in the sand, aspiring to become a rock.

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