It comes in waves.
Not here forever,
but never really gone.
It lurks around the corner.
Watching.
Waiting.
and right when you think you’re safe,
you think you’re free,
believe it’s finally left you alone,
that’s when it jumps out,
catches you off-guard,
throws you off your feet,
throws you back into
the deep, dark hole
that is your mind.
It traps you in there
like a caged bird,
swallows you
like a star lost in the universe,
beats you
like the ocean beats at the shore,
over and over.
It hurts,
and it haunts.
hides
and seeks
And it never leaves.
Never.
It can’t.
because it’s yours,
and you are it’s.