Drowning

-by Sharicka Zutshi (Founder)

Theme: Mental Health

Do you know what it’s like to drown in a hurricane?

It’s not a nice feeling, but that’s a given.

First, the water surrounds you from all ends and traps you.

It isn’t still water. Water that rose. With the help of the wind

In the lap of the sky, its beating heart powerful enough to shut yours down.

It’s crazy how similar to life that is. Every sorrow, every woe and every regret is like the

drops of water that form the hurricane. Each irrelevant on its own.

But put together, they drown you.

Second, you now feel the current. The current is pulling you, as if magnetically

Toward the center. Where it will swallow you you.

What do you do? You fight it. You fight every drop with your will to live.

What becomes of it? Helplessness. The current is too strong.

All these emotions bottled up for ages have now grown stronger.

Wounds heal in time, but the scar remains.

Psychologically speaking, trust and belief once broken can never be repaired the same.

Be it in oneself. Or others.

Third, the water enters your lungs. You can’t breathe anymore.

The air that gave you life. Where passion was your oxygen has been replaced by the sorrow.

You gasp, crave and cry for air. You want to live you want to breathe but it’s gone.

The will to live is diminishing and all contact and control over yourself is gone.

You long for a hand to hold on to and escape, a shoulder to cry on and lips to kiss goodbye.

But there is no one around you.

Others are drowning too, but in different hurricanes.

Lastly, your vision has started to yellow. You’ve reached the center and now you’re sinking.

As the sky gets further and further and you start feeling the pressure of the depth.

You hear the people talking you see the world blurring up and you feel the disappointment.

But at this point, it doesn’t matter.

You can’t break a stone once its sand.

You can’t recover what you lost at the waves.

You can’t hold on once you’ve given up.

As you sink further the rays of light you see get fainter and fainter.

The light shows you the happy times, the times of love, mirth and forgiveness.

The drops of regret and now attached to every end of your body, Inside out.

Do you know what it’s like to drown?

It isn’t a nice feeling.

If one who is bound by chains.

But for one, who is thirsty for serenity,

As you approach the darkness to prevail, there is peace.