I wrote this for a project for English in which we had to write ten poems. The poems could be about anything so I chose to write them about mental disorders. This is about panic disorder.
It comes on suddenly.
But does not leave without causing some harm.
It leaves a person drained.
It comes with no alarm.
No signal to warn you, no light to guide you.
It will leave you pained.
With something like this it's hard to confide.
So listen closely and do not hide.
Because of this many have cried.
You will feel nothing except for fear.
Screams for everyone to hear.
With a tightened chest it's hard to breathe.
You feel all tense, you clench your teeth.
When it finally subsides they ask "What's wrong?".
You don't answer, you just move along.
Because you don't know why and never will.
But they're too sly and you go downhill.
They get so bad, sometimes you have to swallow a pill.
Your feelings tend to get so dramatic.
When you're stuck with a thing called Panic.
