written from the soul

Breathe

I'm drowning
Drowning in an endless sea of emotions
Unable to swim my way up
I need to breathe
The bitter taste of so many unsaid words fill my mouth
As I gulp in the salty waves of the ocean
I'm sinking
My hands grasp to pull myself up
I reach for anything
For any hope
I need to breathe
Memories drown my brain
Of happier times
As the world is being filled by a haunting shade of blue
A vast ocean of nothingness
I sink down in a shell of the person I once was
Slipping slowly away from the person everyone saw me as
I hear their cries and the water fills with their tears
As they beg me to come back to the surface
To just breathe
But I can't breathe if I keep drowning
I can't stay afloat if I just keep sinking
In this ocean of sorrow