Panic Attack

little breath

short and sweet

let me up onto my feet

heartbeat race

tear flows

panic knocks, panic knows

dirty feet on

my clean floor

smash the plates, slam the doors

bitter guest who

pins me down

deeper till I start to drown

clothes wet from

the panicked sweat

worst fiend I had ever met

petrified by

fear again

again, again, again, again,

waves of panic

over me

coat my eyes that I can't see

dead

cold in space

nothing in this time and place

panic kiss me on my face

nothing left, without a trace

awaken in the morning

shower

cold water

rinse the sweat off

tell myself to stop being so silly

get on with it

-o0o-