Anxious Poets Society
explain how you feel

blocks of shattered
seashells on fire
ridged and burning
in my stomach
up to my sternum
my lungs closing in
my heart mingles with the smoke that
travels to my head
the tidal tears building behind my
eyes being stopped like
a sand dune suppresses the waves
the current traveling up into my
brain pressures my
skull till it
bursts
down to my eyes
the hurricane welcomes
the pressure of the
sea salt water crashing
over me
i am
drowning deep
wishing to swim out of the water
but the sea floor
seems more comforting
than–
Marissa is a student at Hunter College in New York City studying Creative Writing who firmly believes in the power of writing to help alleviate psychic pain.
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