My Avalanche of Darkness

it begins with a quiet sensation / the odd feel of a distal tremor / then it quickly descends into a panic of total emotional abandonment and physical desperation / how could my closest—reliable confidant do this to me? / my heart begins to pound and escalate in bullets of rapid fire percussion / sweat beads up on my face / my ears ring as they drag loud chains of impending captivity / the anxiety rushes through every vein and nerve in my body— seizing any logic of light or deliverance / my tongue becomes numb and swollen / fear clenches my twitching digits / my field of vision narrows into a stifling corridor of darkening desperation / my future seems blurred within the clamors and dissonance of hectic bewilderment / tears are assembling to streak my face in slaty paths of a solemn reality I am ill-equipped to walk / I am alone as the sheer weight of this plummeting avalanche of amassing darkness induces heartless suffocation / it then triggers a neurological desolation of hopelessness / my icy lips turn blue as the last remnant of color escapes my body / the help of rescuers is nowhere to be found and I am resigned to my fate / trapped within this rocky underworld of my own constricting reality / all my friends and family have abandoned me / technology offers me only its undying nothingness / a cold existential threat drowns me in tides of hapless dark waters / music fades to agonizing static / I am weary / I have nothing left to enlighten me or inspire any faith / I prepare to exhale my final breath of impossibility / but wait / wait… / beneath mountains of my grief—I unexpectedly find my lost appendage / my beloved but two-timing phone