Suffocating Without Support

at the beginning of this year, my creative writing teacher gave us a prompt to write a poem about drowning. it was very hard. i realized that i feel like im drowning almost every single second of every day. not just in sadness, but in feeling. joy, anger, numbness, every single one. i realized that as a person with not only anxiety but also an abundance of empathy, it is easy to let your emotions consume you, and, well, drown you. this has been an overarching theme in almost all of my poems since then, and these works are the closest thing ive got to a life jacket. i hope you enjoy.
-mads