Panic Attacks
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Plagued with walls of doubtMy mind begins to frayMy thoughts beg to strayAnd it all spills out
Never to bed, early to rise
Adds to the rings beneath my eye
The gray and purple, these colors shine through
You'd call them your favorites if you had them too
No rest for the wicked's what I always said
Rocking back and forth
Waves crash and rain pounds
He is asleep in the cabin, unwoken
Alone, sea churns hammering the sturn
Tangled ropes of the sail & rigging
Heart pounding too fast,can't breathe,soul locked in the dizzy cageas I spin to the frequency of the world too fast, too loud.It's all crashing down now.I am TNT lit at both ends,
My mentor is the weighty, wheezing breath at the top of a steep hill
on days when I already know I’m late for first period.
It's the carbon dioxide my lungs won’t let out
in a sharpie-smeared bathroom stall
How could you let me down?
My dear brain,
your power is so immense
But you lash out on me.
Why me?
For once let me have one thought
one idea
Too loud, too loud
Eyes drowned, head bowed
Clap hands over ears
Fingers leave bruises
But must hold in the music
To suspend myself from reality
Hear rhythm rapping the only words that make sense
Last night, I couldn't breathe
And so I couldn't think.
I was so desperate to stay alive,
I stabbed people hurting to
Claw my way to the surface.
I never thought I'd drown in open air.
Eyes heavy, body trembling, nightmares vast. She's harassed by the forecast of the past. Demons disguised in the form of lovers Until she discovered their true colors. She was used and abused,
I started with a frown
My year already felt down
I was in a trap
Under wraps
I saw fear right in front of me
Every day it would come
To take my happiness away
Imagine a roller coaster
Perhaps your favorite thrill ride
Or one that scared you to death
The wildest one you've ever ridden
Picture your car
How many people know
What it feels like
To have anxiety
How many know
What a panic attack
Feels like
To be unable
To communicate
To freeze up in public
To find an escape route
No. No. No. Please no.My pulse beats fasterThe muscles ache in my palmsDon’t do this. Don’t cry.
It’s the middle of the night. I let the clock reach 2am before I realize that it’s going to be one of those nights. Before I accept that it will be one of those nights.
I sit. Everything is ok.
Then it starts.
My heart starts to pound.
My hands start to sweat.
I can feel my breath start to quicken.
Faster, and faster.
I am strong
-er than I was before
Curled up, shaking, on the floor.
Panic attacks that would make me weak.
breathe intry not to throw upsqueeze eyes shuthold breathfreak outbreathe back outand pretend to be calm
You know stress?
Worry?
That panic that grips your chest and rips you apart in the middle of the night?
Because thinking about the future incites this feeling of needing to explode because you're not ready.
Overwhelmed.
About to die.
Can't breath with my chest this tight.
I wish I could just get over it
Like everybody says.
But it's not that easy.
This stress triggers my anxietybecause I can’t handle you being mad at mefor any reason. It makes me nervous.I think, "Do I really deserve this?"or is my mind just ten steps ahead of reality?
I try to speak,
But no words come.
I try to open my eyes,
But I can’t see any light.
I try to breath,
But no air comes in.
This mask of normalcy,
It inhibits me.
Chorus:
I'm stressed out
A lot of stuff on my mind, I don't know what to do
I'm stressed out
I just want to be alone, so I'm sitting in my room
I'm stressed out
Once there was a man who left
and his little girl was sad
she cut her wrists and bleed for him
as she wished to call him, dad
there was an incident that spurred the path
the family was split
panic arches in my gut,
deep and visceral pain
and i can't breathe,
can't see,
can't hear
anything
but the relentless beat of a butterfly's wing
against my rib cage
When the walls move in and the room gets small,
When the ground disappears and I suddenly fall,
When the sky gets so dark I can only see black,
When reality disappears, I have a panic attack…
