Drowning

For moments when you don't want to explain yourself

You feel like you're drowning
Trying to breathe through anger and sadness
Far from thoughts of spring

You fear the night my child
Unlike the youth you now lost
Who sees the rain in dances rather than in pain

How do you push memories and nightmares
When the shadow plants itself into your skin
Growing deeper where the soul is silent

You want to scream 
and run to your solace
As this might help you swim

Yet you still feel like you're drowning