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Time expands and collapses and crumbles in my hands I’m caught in a hurricane of thoughts refusing to escape my being Insults created especially for me echo through the shell that i have become I feel my legs bouncing like they’re convincing themselves to leave me My stomach churns like the spin cycle on a washing machine I’m tired of feeling empty yet so full and heavy that each step i take is a battle in and of itself because my legs alone are 10,000 insufferable pounds I watch my chest rise and fall but it feels like an overweight white man is sitting directly on my lungs I am consumed by the urge to cry out for help but my mouth has been sewn shut by your assumptions that each move i make is for attention.
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May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017 at 5:30 PM UTC
Anxiety
Time expands and collapses and crumbles in my hands I’m caught in a hurricane of thoughts refusing to escape my being Insults created especially for me echo through the shell that i have become I feel my legs bouncing like they’re convincing themselves to leave me My stomach churns like the spin cycle on a washing machine I’m tired of feeling empty yet so full and heavy that each step i take is a battle in and of itself because my legs alone are 10,000 insufferable pounds I watch my chest rise and fall but it feels like an overweight white man is sitting directly on my lungs I am consumed by the urge to cry out for help but my mouth has been sewn shut by your assumptions that each move i make is for attention.
taltalks
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17/F/Ohio
May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017 at 5:30 PM UTC
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