i feel your presence
in every peak or ravine
i feel my heart hammering through my chest
in every noise or silence
i feel your numbness
in every conversation or activity
i feel the ache in my thumping heart
pulling me down in a swamp
drowning me
gripping me by the throat
squeezing even harder with every hectic movement
i dare to make
i am scared
but i am dead now anyway
~022