PANIC

Yesterday, burglars attacked me

snuck in through my navel

slithered through the gaps under the door of my mind

tromped over and intruded my body

a heist of calm state and innocence

captured my breath, tamed my soul

ruptured my walls and windows,

cracks turned into sinkholes

aggressively pulling out my innards

my hefty veins

intermittently becoming violet and blue and violent

my heart was in a drag race,

in synch with my fingers

trembling of turbulence

but my brain is out of place

creeping in a fast-paced city

and I hear the world blowing their horns at me

when I’m at a march towards an imminent doom

deliverance comes in tiptoe

growing frail,

I gave birth to torment and fright

expelled the daze, exhaled the haze

my soul escaped, my breath smothered them

tomorrow is never an assurance

but I made it today