The Seasonal State of Life

a fresh breath

for years she felt suffocated,
held under water by the chains forged from her failures.
she fought desperately from the trenches of her mind,
attempting to find some semblance of sanity.
everything inside of her screamed to let go,
to give up.
she fought against every fiber of her being,
her will to live shining through her tunneled vision,
an ode to her resilience.
it took the perspective of another person,
someone with more experience than she,
to realize that every mistake was forgivable,
and each link of the chain melted off.
she swam up from the depths tormenting her for so long,
and took her first fresh breath.