#breathless poems on Hello Poetry

Terra Levez Aug 2020

Empty

So empty
At the hole just below my ribs
Like the air ****** from my lungs
Like a hard punch in the gut

Like a cold, empty, air-tight cellar
With only a small sad puddle
Collected by an incessant dripping
From a ceiling that's too dark to see

It's like a vacuum in my chest
Each time I breathe in
It threatens to cave in
And crush me
So I take shallow breaths
A few molecules at a time
And just hope that the day doesn't come
When I will have to face
The consequence
Of that Emptiness

#empty #hollow #alone #lonely #breathless #breathe

sofia Jul 2020

swimming with the fish

as i take a step
off the splintered dock
into the crisp
cool
water
i feel
breathless
i'm meant to be
swimming with the fish

#swimming #fish #breathless #water #home

Luijoy France C Salcedo Jul 2020

Monsters of the Night

What is this?
Something's or someone rather
From my back, its hugging me
It felt so cold, so eerie, so scary

What the hell?
I feel like I am being watched
Like there's a pair of eyes
I swear I can feel it but I don't know whose eyes are those?

Is it someone?
Or is it a soul or a ghost?
What creature was that?
****, its hugging me again..

I can feel it caressing my arms..
Its hands slowly found its way to my neck
It chokes me..
I can't breathe, help me..

Someone out there please help me
I am so scared, this place is so eerie
Help me, take me away from my home
Take me away from this hell, so that they'd leave me alone..

#breathless #cold #dark #scared

Sreeyaa May 2020

air

You've become the air I breathe,
yet you manage to leave me,
breathless everytime

#air #breathless

basil May 2020

upside down

overwhelmed and breathless
but
in the way that makes you
tired of existing

until the realization
that i have not been
drowning
deep in the ocean

my feet are planted
in the sky
and it's only my head
under water
and
if i just keep walking

i'll be in the clouds

keep going, love. you can touch the stars.

05.18.2020

#overwhelmed #and #breathless #drowning #in #the #sky

kolsmusing Apr 2020

gasping

she needed you last night
as much as she needed air
because she’s afraid as hell.
she was so afraid
that she didn’t want to close her eyes
in spite of the sleepiness she feels
because if she does,
the darkness would come in
and swallow her.

What it feels like to be scared with no one to help you.

#breathless #scared #lost #alone