#choking poems on Hello Poetry

Kale Oct 2018

Anxiety sneaks up
Like a snake in the greenlands of Africa
It's poisonous fangs elongated ready to
strike

Anxiety knocks on the door
Hoping that we would answer
His creepy smile
Hoping that we'd befriend him
And when we do
chokes us to unconiousness

Anxiety please leave me be
I can't stop thinking
I can't breathe

Im suffering from an anxiety attack and was restless so I decided to rest

#anxiety #depresion #help #choking #snake #death #door

Phi Kenzie Sep 2018

Choking on Snot

I feel like I'm stuck
on what is
and what's snot

Post nasal drip
is when mucus in the nose
drops down to the throat

Voice coated and smothered

'It's not that bad’
a prime example

#choking #on #snot

She Writes Jul 2018

I Taste Blood (trigger warning)

When I see you my chest tightens
Suffocating under your stare
I can feel your hand around my throat
Pinning my body to the bed
Choking, gasping, crying

When I see you my skin crawls
I can feel your body
Forcing its way inside mine
Using me as an object
Made for your pleasure

When I hear you speak I taste blood
Biting my tongue
To keep your secret
I can hear every threat
You used to keep me quiet

I wish you didn’t still have power over me after all these years

#abuse #**** #assault #*** #victim #blood #sad #crying #choking

A Simillacrum Jul 2018

Safe Space Strangulation

Above the cushion springs
Above the bed sheet floor
They: Bird Lizard, Thing
Talon clasped around my neck
Below the salted rain, I
Bellow and ask for more

Trap these tremulous wrists
Tease these glistening lips
Bombard this sturdy frame
Bomb this body like a shanty town
After the white phosphor mist
Ambulate and bring the towel

Buried in the deep between
Buried in the *******
A post punk ****** scene
A sensational ligature
Tried and tested again
Test one more time just to be sure

I feel safe when I'm being choked. Or maybe, I feel like I want to be choked when I'm safe.

#*** #queer #lgbtq #trans #choking #safe #space #turn #on

Tsunami Jul 2018

Fireflies

Sometimes when I miss someone
I feel it catch in my throat
Something between a whimper
More of a cough and a choke
Fireflies flutter in my pulmonary cavities
My ribs are the lantern
Caging my fatalities
As they burn from their expansions.
Igniting even the darkest of nights
They flicker off
One by one

i choke

#fireflies #choking #science #ignite #night #summer #spring #seasons #throat #cage

miki Jun 2018

irony.

you told me to show you where i hurt.
but you were wearing a blindfold.
and my hands were tied behind my back.

you told me to tell you how i feel.
but you had plugged your ears.
and i was choking on my own spit.

#irony #ironic #love #friendship #broken #choking #breakup #blind

D Baby Bey Jan 2018

Gasp

Choking,
Just beneath the surface, I drown in the weight of the subconscious.
Choking,
I gasp for the relief of release
But still the tightness in my throat won't go,
like a wave crashing down; the pressure is non-relenting.
Choking,
I give in
Letting the thickness of suffocation overtake all, then-
Glory,
Choking no more the lights of spastic magnificence flash in my mind and I, dead, find a new energy of one fighting to live.
I breathe again.

#panic #choking

Jack Jun 2018

Suffocated

He wraps his ash covered, yellowed fingers around its neck and squeezes,
He doesn’t know what he’s doing yet,
But he can’t stop.

“I can smell the cigarette on your clothes” it gasps,
“Do you really need that to feel happy?”

“Why are your pupils so dilated, boy?”
“Do you really need that to feel happy?”

“I can smell the drink on your breath, boy”
“Do you really need that to feel happy?”

As he hold tighter around happiness’s neck,

He doesn’t know what he’s doing,
The face shifts and shakes violently,
His own face now smiles back,
“You’ve killed your happiness again”
It whispers, on its final breath,
Save me.

#sad #depression #choking #suffocating #dying #happiness #drink

cait-cait Jun 2018

is you is or is you ain’t my baby

i want to be loved so bad--

but when does the
future become the present,

and
when will the
crying stop becoming
choking —

how will i forgive you
for wounds
you
did
not
open?

forgive me,
i cannot love you
the way you love
me.

i long to be whole again
.

I found this in the notes on my phone , dated September 17th 2017 at 1:00pm. It’s so ******* funny because this was literally my past self having a future vision of what I’m currently feeling and going through rn and writing it down as a poem. Time travel is real. original title was you want to know me but i cannot be known

#forgive #love #forget #wounds #crying #choking #pain #while #future