Darkness and terror rising in my chest

As I sink from the surface to the depths below

I try to scream, but my lungs fill with salty cold water

I can't cough, I can't scream, I can't breathe

My lungs burn from no oxygen, no salty sea air

I flail and thrash, but just continue to sink to the darkness below

Light and air are out of reach

While the cold drags me further down to my watery grave.

If you compare light to happiness and oxygent to hope

While the depths of the sea is the darkness of depression

People don't realize that I've been drowning right before their eyes for a very long time.