emotional anguish

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the essence of a heavy soul, set in a whisper too loud to swallow

the deepest encounter with your own thoughts

while you can’t run away from a cold

that turns into a pain,

a freezing disaster that causes a flood

drenched in sorrow that escalates

until your lungs threaten to burst,

an ache that slowly destroys you

but doesn’t take you in,

it only holds you down

so you don’t remember what it really means to breathe

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