Sensory Overload

I can’t stand the noise

It’s always too much

Constant suffocating symphonies

Of voices, clangs, and bumps

The room is too small,

Their smiles too bright

I can’t think through the chaos

My ribcage holds me too tight

Their sounds steal all the air

I need order to breathe

If I run with my keys now

How far will I have to go to be free?

I know I must be crazy

So enraged that I am close to tears

From listening to squealing laughter

And the scrape of shuffling chairs

But I feel dizzy

nauseous and hot and wild

My heavy heartbeat drowns out my reason

They look over at me

I force a smile

#poetry #sensoryoverload #anxiety