A Dark Friend, A Faint Light

• Mikayla Hindmarch, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2018

A creature crawling up her tightened throat,
A burning red fire flooding her face,
A change in the wind a fearful denote,
A feeling of falling into deep space.
Slowly the demons take hold of her heart,
They splotch black paint over her teary eyes,
They slowly begin to rip her apart,
A painful death she begins to demise.
No amount of breath seems to fill her lungs,
Her brain pounding against her fractured skull,
Sweaty palms slipping from the mental rungs,
Swooning her into a nightmarish lull,
A light in the darkness was assuring,
A panic attack she was enduring.