Overthinking

My mind is swimming

But I never learned to float

So my mind is drowning

 

It feels as tho I've jumped off the high dive

Sinking and sinking

Until bubbles float up no more

 

It's a suffocating feeling

I can't breathe

And no matter how much I struggle I can't reach the surface

 

Maybe it's cause I never learned how to swim

I was told it was an essential skill

But if I can't teach my body how do I teach my mind?

 

My own thoughts are the sea

My consciousness is me

Sinking instead of swimming

 

Waves crash against me

But instead of water it's words

Thoughts and ideas

 

Images I can't comprehend

That envelope me until I can't see the light

Drowning me in darkness

 

I can't see

Or breathe

Or feel

 

I can't swim in the waters of my own mind

As the tide keeps rising

 

My mind is swimming

But I never learned to float

So my mind is drowning

 

This poem is about: 
Me

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