I want to cry
But I couldn’t tell you why
I don’t even know it myself
I feel so overwhelmed
My fight or flight is activated
What’s wrong with me?
Logic knows I am alright
I’ve nothing to fear, I’m safe
Yet something is amiss
Just breathe, I tell myself
Breathe through the feelings
Breathe away the panic
Now the music is too loud?
I can hear everything
Going on around me, all at once
I feel like I’m suffocating
Should I step outside?
There’s too many people out there
What is this weight I feel?
I wish it would go away
I just want to be okay
This is an incredible and emotional poem, yet written, it seems, without the emotion which is so strongly conveyed. Sometimes we can take the deepest feelings and write such beautiful verses as you have done here.