Depression

Anxiety

The shriek of a bird of prey
cutting through the air
like a knife through butter
piercing the stillness
of the early morn
He hunts

Panic
A panicked bird
wings a blur
heart beating too fast to count

smashing itself senselessly
against the bars of it’s cage.

Insanity

Waves smashing
surging and receding,
each time tearing pieces of my sanity from the cliff
hurling it to and fro
sucking it down into the maelstrom.

Hunted

A cornered wolf,
backed into a place of no escape
turns,
lips curled back to reveal
sharp, deadly teeth
A low, rumbling growl
giving warning,
he leaps

Poison

A snake biting it’s own tail
coiling endlessly into itself
a squirming, heaving mass of cold, scaly skin
until it devours and is in turn consumed.