"are you okay?" she stares with a piercing shine in her eyes heartbeat starts beating fast look around blackness surrounds me I'm going down words are rushing through my head like a river thoughts in my head but... can't turn into any which word in the shuffled dictionary that was my mind It had felt as though my throat had been cut open then had salt shoved in the deep ****** wound I was not ok But how do I tell a human being that could never understand the capacity of what I felt into simpler words Words that were like poetry to the mind of an ordinary person as words to a poet How could I possibly explain that Anger was fire ants crawling under my skin Sadness wasn’t just a tear or two it was a deep hole caving my chest in letting my organs be exposed Anxiety was my stomach being tied into a constrictor knot on my ribs and lungs and chest making it hard for one to breathe as though you were breathing through a capri sun straw How could I possibly explain that the emotions I feel are more than just emotional They are physical How do I make someone who has never felt the exact way I feel without word vomiting all over them Leaving them overwhelmed with words that could possibly never be understood “Yes, I’m fine.”