Aquarium
Every day is swimming day. Just keep swimming, they say. But to swim endlessly—back and forth, back and forth, back and forth—in the corners my life has become Is actually aimless roaming of trying to survive day to day in a trap, in chains, in memories. It looks pretty normal. After all, swimming is what I’m supposed to do. You see, they don’t see, that there’s nothing to cling to No one to hold, no one to save, nowhere else to go But back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. In the seeming calmness of the waters Lies someone who’s screaming inside Yet no one seems to hear Because I am still swimming I breathe an air of despair and it chokes me It hurts so bad that I… I forget how to breathe and I remind myself Inhale, exhale, you can breathe.. Even breathing is an effort. You worthless piece of shit— How can you fail in such an easy task? Source: The Spruce As everything passes by at a blur And it’s strange because you’re
