When you feel like you're screaming but your throat has stalled like a decrepit engine Even as the fear rises akin to bile in your lungs and your senses are drowning in confusion You keep screaming because your heart wants to still its own pulse You know that feeling where you wake up heart racing breath huffing cold sweat on your brow They say its because your heart rate dropped so low your brain defibrillated your heart to keep you alive Its worse when you've just been dreaming It takes your dreams whatever kin they be and Ends them Ends you. You wake up You wake up You were falling You were about to die. And then you look at the calendar and go 'I have to do things today.' And you wish your heart was still falling. Singing a song you never heard before but which you loved because it was so Alien to the idea of you You think, don't give up, don't give up, and you make it a mantra. Your heart beats to that rhythm like your brain sending you memos of its continued survival.
You are still screaming on the inside. You put some music on to drown yourself out. And you are at 'peace'.