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.