Drowning in despair

                          Thoughts are rushing through my head
                                    colliding and splintering
                              into razor-edged shards of darkness
                                  severing any hopes for clarity. 

Millions of compounding details and dates
entangled, interwoven
into a roiling mass of writhing knots
twisting my heart with a sick dread.

                        Concerns and approaching deadlines
                            expenses and expectations
                    overwhelmingly mounting and accumulating
                              burdening my frayed being.

Sinking steadily under the surface of sanity
gasping for air
the dark waters of delusion close over my head
dragging me down.

                  Unheard screams and struggling soon cease
                              thick and heavy-headed
                  disembodied in the fetid stink of hopelessness
                    I sit entombed in the utter dark of my mind.