It is feeling like the world has overcome 
You body and soul and then some 
It’s like drowning in a bottomless sea 
Gasping, gasping, trying to breathe 
Sputtering, choking reaching for air
Crashing, thrashing limbs everywhere;
It’s feeling the whole world closing in
Vision blurring, darkness descending. 
It’s being sure that many endings are near:
Of wanting, of living and even of fear;
It’s feeling the numbness spread like a pall
Binding you, blinding you even as you fall
Into the swirling, whirling abyss 
Of dead emotions; of nothingness. 

It’s finally seeing the smallest of gleams 
Picking the darkness at its hoary seams 
Little by little the flicker grows bright 
Ever so slowly it pierces the night. 
Your leaden heart too warms in the heat
Resuming its vital, pulsating beat;
You rise to the surface on a rip tide 
You’re thawing and warming on the inside.
You break the surface of your despair 
As your throttled lungs fill up with air; 
Gasping, gasping you take in a breath 
Sputtering and choking you hold on to the thread 
Of the world coming back within reach; 
Hope on strong wings, has ended the siege 

She gathers you up in her healing arms
Anointing you with her soothing balms
Freeing you, steeling you so that you may walk
Another day with strength and love in your heart.