flushed cheeks and breathy speech she fervently begs, " take me away from here " her hair is tangled in her fist as she seemingly caresses your shoulders
" you don't understand " she wheezes, her breathing now shallow ( the fantasy shatters )
" i need to leave this place, i'm s u f f o c a t i n g "
i feel like i'm drowning, sinking, suffocating, . . . trapped in invisible chains and weights fabricated by my mind's illusions . . . hard wired to ultimate- ly sink to the bottom and stay there eternally