It feels like drowning.
Endless waves of emptiness fill your body.
You gasp for air as everyone around you watches,
but no one makes a sound.
You try to swim to the surface,
so desperate for a quick breath.
The grasp it has on you is too strong - you sink.
You’re left to drown in an ocean of despair;
your blue lips inhale words of self-hatred like oxygen.
Your instincts tell you to kick, to jump, to fight,
hopelessly searching for any bit of relief.
You can no longer hold your own breath.
You suffocate.
- what depression feels like// I.M