I’m drowning

Fighting against the raging current

I’m screaming

Nobody hears me

They sit in their lawn chairs under colorful umbrellas and watch the waves of life

Peaceful they call it

They don’t see

I’m slipping

I swim and I fight

Yet I’m pushed farther away

I yell out each time I manage

I’m ignored

“Every teenager feels this way”

Im running out of energy

I can do this anymore

I want to slip into the current

And let myself sink under the waves