Your fingertips are cold and you feel like you constantly need to warm yourself.
Your eyes can't seem to focus on one thing.
Your legs are shivering.

Everything is heightened, you can feel it all.
It's like you're at the edge of a cliff and the wind is making your body sway.
It's like your body is on fire.
You can feel your blood burn through your veins.
Your lungs ache it feels like it's filling with blood instead of air.
And your brain it's running at a hundred miles per hour.
At any minute you think you're about to collapse.
It's always the worse case scenario.
You're being buried alive.
But there's no dirt.
No hole to consume you.
You're being suffocated by the air around you.
Life is being stolen from your body.
Sometimes you can't sleep.
You're tricked into believing the world is shrinking.
And if you don't stay wake,

Well, who knows.
This uncertainty scares you.
Other times you'd wish you could die
But it never happens.
The pressure squishes you as if you're being flattened by a roller.
When you finally feel like it's going to be okay.
It comes back.
It rushes in like a flood.
It engulfs you like a tsunami.
The worst part is it lingers.
Like subtle rage.
You can hear it.
You can feel it.
And It's never there.
It's not your enemy.
It's your closest friend.
For it's with you always.
You're crying for this pain to ease.
And these pills don't help.
You can't ever escape it.
It won't let you.
It turns the world against you.
And everyone seems to have an evil smirk.
Ready to kick you and make you hurt.
Their eyes so vile.
Everything they say is ironic,
Their words speak one thing,
Their tone speaks another.
They will never mean what they say.
And good old anxiety whispers,
"See I told you willful child,
I am your only confidant.
The only one who will tell you the truth."
You give in.
You believe it's true.
Then this cycle continues.
(For My Sissy, I know the world is scary.)