Noises echo with unwanted tension.

Muscles tighten like a screw being turned.

I scream through the storm, but nobody hears.

Raging while the flames burn.

My clothes feel one size too small.

The air thickens like dirt after rain.

Thoughts become loud as thunder.

Peace disappears like water falling down a drain.

Everything feels like too much.

A tornado destroys everything in sight.

My nerves hang on the last thread.

I feel like I can no longer fight.

I must hold onto the the facts

that these moments of chaos will pass.

My mind will settle like a river.

My mind will soften like morass.