Time slows down

One minute the equivalent of an hour,

One hour seems like a day,

One week is an eternity.

My brain drains my body’s vitality.

No matter how much I sleep,

I cannot live in reality.

The circumstances of life sweep over me.

I am a rock at the bottom of a river,

Just watching the water flow by.

So fast,

So smooth.

I’m stuck.

This weighs me down.

This one affair wraps my mind

As a mother wraps a frightened child.

But

It shrouds me in fear and uncertainty

It kills so slowly,

 That it seems as if nothing is happening.

Its grasp is strong

As if it is a starving predator holding onto its prey.

It feeds on my existence

And it can never have enough.