Don't you just hate it when you choke on your words but you have a million things to say?

   I hate it when I can't find the words when I just have an avalanche of emotion roiling inside me.

   It's like I'm drowning and I can see the surface, but I'm just too short of breaking it.

   Like I'm slowly being burned from the inside out and I have the key to make it stop but I dropped the key down the drain and it's just out of reach.

   Like I'm stuck in a snowstorm and there's a door to the other side but I just can't turn the knob, no matter how hard I try.

   It's like that song you listened to a few weeks ago and you're trying to remember just one lyric that lingers on the very edge of your memory but isn't quite there.

   It's like I can feel myself slowly sinking further down every time I fail to break the surface. To grasp the key. To turn the knob. To remember the lyric. I can feel the energy to even do so slowly leaving my body.

   It's like every day, I'm just falling further and further down, spinning ever-so-slowly down into the depths of the forgotten and no one cares enough to notice or pull me from the hungry, tantalizing, dark waves of the water.

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