Poem

 Poem

The Popular Kids

Chest heaving

You can’t breathe

Pain in your chest pain in your stomach

Pain in your heart.

The roaring in your head won’t stop

You think in that moment that you’re dying, that you’re shattering-

Can’t breathe

Can’t breathe

Can’t-

Breathe

You’re ok.

But the shaking in your hands won’t stop-

You are loved, you are light

You are the trees and the rushing water

The echo of birdsong on a distant wind.

But your heart is tired, the world is too much

The noise

The fear

Everyone talking everyone asking things of you, too much it’s too much it’s too much-

Stop

Breathe

Remember the people

The ones who hold you, the ones who see you, the ones who understand.

You are light

The panic is in your head

Don’t listen to that part of you screaming that you can’t.

Rest.

You will be ok

It will pass

You are light and power

The crackling air before a violent, beautiful storm

You are stars in an infinite cosmos

You are the howl of a hungry she-wolf into the beckoning darkness.

You are made of love.

The Popular Kids