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Bathroom Sink

October 9, 2018
By xgazxkazx BRONZE, Culpeper, Virginia
xgazxkazx BRONZE, Culpeper, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
I am the hated face of hated faith


Panic is a bathroom sink,

Grime-covered and overflowing,

Tearing the skin off my hands

With its vicious heat splashing,

Burning cold through spilled ink.


Inexorable dripping

From the rusted faucet,

Straight to its slimy veins

Sliding effortlessly through my entire being,

Puke mixed with minty paste

An attempt to be free.


Cerise-stained and overpowered

With bleach, an attempt to be clean.

Rotten all over and

Drowning in sour suffering,

Innocence and purity forever

Lost underneath.


Incessantly imbued and

Utterly consuming,

Panic is a bathroom sink.


The author's comments:

This was written for an assignment I had in my creative writing class. We had to compose a twenty line poem with the beginning format of "(emotion) is a (noun)," choosing the emotion and noun from a list. I chose to write mine about my struggles with anxiety, OCD, and panic attacks.


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