"Look Before You Fall" by Ellen Cook

It’s like a big rush of air on your face and then you forget everything

And you take a deep breath before you immerse yourself underneath

But sooner than you expected,

You can’t breathe.

But you’re so distracted by the way your heart beat is louder than an Aerosmith concert,

you can’t possibly notice that the lack of oxygen to your brain is cutting of your central unit of common sense

And by that time it’s too late anyways

Because even when someone sticks it to you between the eyes

You deny it.

And you sink lower and lower

And the main reason you remain at the bottom is because you have an unsatisfied urge for that feeling that you had at the top.

When you first dove in.

When you submerged yourself in false happiness, false bliss.

But now, forewarnings accounted for, the bottom is where you lie.

The bottom with guilt and loneliness.

The bottom that has stolen your breath and leaves you begging

To take it all back.

You’d give anything for another moment at the top.

A moment that you gave up willingly.

And all for what?