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Heather May 2024
I wonder if everyone feels this heavy
If midday naps become a constant escape
From the crushing desperation they live with
If the only time they feel light is drifting through their dreams
Heather May 2024
I’m scared to turn 30 without you
A decade you never stepped foot in
Time keeps slipping away
I used to grow with it
But lately it feels as if it’s growing around me
Heather May 2024
I could spend eternity
Sitting in the pouring rain
But it would never rinse you from my skin
Heather May 2024
It is deeply bittersweet
To see you achieve the life that young you dreamed
Which exists so separately from the one young me fantasized

I take solace in the health of your family
And heed in the love in your eyes that still remains
Even after we cut ties
Heather May 2024
I feel too much
Emotions like viscous liquid gumming up my veins
Bogging my brain like quicksand

All my muscles quake
Heather May 2024
First I feel it in my fingers and toes
The buzzing that grows
A swarm of angry bees
Nesting deep in my stomach

The pain of numb so few will know
Vision as black as crow
I trace my raised skin
As it clamps down on my windpipe.
I revised one of my favorite cutesy poems about panic attacks to reflect the horror I felt in my recent one.
Heather Apr 2024
Ever  been ***** and equally uninspired?
Not a single person keeps the fantasy alive
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