"Anxiety"

It can strike without warning or other times you feel it
With a truck or a freight train it feels like you have been hit
Your heart palpates, out of rythym and beat
Knees wobbely, unsteady, sweating with no heat
Like an elephant standing on your chest with all its might
For every breath you must struggle, for each is a fight
Your mind races without control and fills with dread
The worst case scenario, nothing else in your head
You feel like you are drowning and everybody sees
But instead of helping, they walk by like the breeze
Your scared, your sad and panicked all at one time
Your selfworth is nothing, a case for depression you are prime
Sleep is not likely, as hard as you try
Lying there exhausted, all you want to do is cry
No motivation, no drive, a complete lack of desire
Nothing is important, you have lost your fire
Medication can help and psychatrists too
Until finally its realized, the change must come from you