Throughout my life writing has helped me process my depression, anxiety, and PTSD. This poem, for me, represents the addiction of something destructive; from thoughts to behaviors.
I close my eyes
and step off the edge of safety.
For one moment I float,
then, I fall.
The sudden stop will come,
but will the regret slam into the body?
A hope that it won’t is clung to.
In the meantime: focus on the rush.
Life whips my hair around
and fills up my lungs.
But this breath feels nervous;
I keep breathing deep.
Take it all in,
open those eyes,
or else this view, good or bad,
will forever pass you by.
~ Caitlin Schemmer
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