Diglossia Girl

Emotions rise like waves of volcanic fire.
Swish, gloop, blubble.

A feeling hard in my chest--tightening,
clenching.
Heat moves through my veins,
taking over like a web of endless strands.

Sirens echo in my head.
Chaos stirs.
Altert, alert.

Blackness settles. Suddenly everything
shatters
like breaking glass.

My world seems stark,
empty and vacant,
with nowhere to turn.
I speak, but there is no one close enough to hear.

This silence is heavy,
a cocoon of my own mind.