Out Of My Control

I can’t breathe

No matter how hard I try

I’m still gasping for air

Drowning in the silence

Or in the noise

My own mind

Suffocating me

I can’t breathe in

Can’t breathe out

There’s no more

Oxygen left

In this crowded room

In my lonely bedroom

In my loud classroom

All chaos

Not organized chaos

Not organized

Like a ball of yarn

Got unraveled

And a three year old

Tried to roll it back up

Can’t find the start

Can’t find the end

Knotted

Messy

Out

Of

My

Control

Gali

VT

14 years old

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