Anxiety

Here it comes again.
You live now by instincts.
Run, stop. Scream, Shut up!
Breathe!
Your lungs swell with air.

Your mind
numb, common sense
made senseless by sensations.
Hear the pulsating in your ear.
Feel the sweat on your hands.
See your life run round you
in circles.

Your heart screams and
Your brain scans over
things that have been.
The first times.
The great times.
Now the last times.

Your book has reached the final chapter.
The pages are quickly turning.
Forget your beginnings, the end comes now.
Seconds turn into hours.
Tick, tick, tick
goes the timebomb.
beat, beat, beat
goes the heart.

Shaking, wretching
Goosebumps.
Shivers down your spine.
You strain to hear
the sound you know is coming.

BING!

You step off the lift and your anxiety
is lifted.
You live!
Live!
You live in fear of death!