Gaping hole in my chest
Pain.
Guttural, gurgling, gulps for air
I cannot breathe.
Tears pushing over my lower lids,
Dripping like snot through my nostrils,
Rejecting me.
Reaching out for no one
Present.
To my knees, to my spine,
On the wet floor,
I fall.
My stomach swivels,
Knotting around my
Soul
Pressing up into the void of my thorax.
Temples pulsing my awareness into a fog. My head
Pounds.
Blurred vision, I fail
To see
My face red, my cheeks wet,
Curled in a ball on the floor
Still gasping,
Wishing to be numb like my
Fingers
I lurch forward in pain.