I’m drowning
My own sea of lonely surrounds me
Pulls me
Swallows me whole
I want to swim
I want to break the surface and
breath
But farther down I go
Into the very depths of my heart
That no one wants to see
That no one wants to know
Not even me
It holds me
Chains me to the dark
Smiling faces stare down
Watching me slip away
Reaching out hands of help that I cannot grasp
A burden
That’s how they must see me
A weight to pull them down with me
They deserve more
I belong where I am
In the crevices with the sad
The broken
I scream for help
Only bubbles of nothing come out
I am nothing
A mere shell of what I could’ve been
Shackled to my sadness
I am my own prisoner