Poem - Drowning in Depression

Drowning in Depression

Poem by Sara Marsano Bouchard

Do you know what drowning

Feels like? I do.

Everyday I can feel the current

Of people, and worries,

And the smallest

of tasks pull me down

Towards the rocky bed below.

The chatters of daily life flood

Into my ears, and the light

From the sun taunts

Me overhead. I plead, and I kick,

And I reach for surface.

For the overwhelming

Duties of life to let me go.

My chest screams out in pain

And all I want is to breathe

Again. The river

Tosses and twists

Me as plans fall

apart and tribulations pour

Around me. Help.

Just as the darkness

Of the deep

Greets me, and I face my fate

That this is surely the end,

I break through

The top of the water.

I will not die today.

For just a moment life settles

As the air fills my lungs.

For just a moment

I can see the serenity

Of my dreams

Along the river bank.

The current pulls me under again.