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May 2017
Abruptly
I am thrown
into
cold cold cold
water
quickly sinking
deeper
deeper
deeper.

Once pulsating
with the sensations of
life,
my body is
silent, numb, surviving.

I feel no more.
I am
no
more.

No breath left.

I am dragged up
to
air.

like backing up
into an electric fence that I didn't know was there,
I am startled with returning sensation.

Pain, ice, misery.

I take a breath, and wait
to go
numb.
I am writing this during a sudden burst of feelings of depression. I feel like I've been numb to any issues and am suddenly being shocked awake and hoping to return to some way of coping.
Erin Halle
Written by
Erin Halle  Pittsburgh
(Pittsburgh)   
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     Lior Gavra and Alexis Walkes
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