Your heart beats in your chest

Faster and faster

You can feel your chest about to open up and burst

Yet at the same time

You’re sinking into yourself

Slowly feeling the dark pulling

You catch your breath

Struggle

Catch it again 

Always barely catching it

You’re hanging on

But every ounce of you wants to give in 

You’re closer now

Your hearts a rapid succession of earthquakes

You’ve sunk deep into your gut

The voices in your head are loud

Their words tearing into you

You’re panicking 

You’re struggling

You remind yourself to breathe

But you don’t listen

You’re too busy

You’re closing down

It’s going to be the end soon

What should you have done

What could you have accomplished

What if…

What about…

It weighs down on you

You’re being crushed

You’re choking for air

You’re grasping for help

You sink into yourself

As your heart tries harder to rip out

This feels like an eternity 

But it’s only been thirty seconds

And then you’re fine

Like nothing ever happened at all

You forget it

Go about whatever it was

That you were doing

**But it doesn’t forget you