Great Piece!

Honest in a way that doesn’t hide behind polish. The shift from “calm and sunny / To lightning, wind and rain” into that trapped, heavy feeling of being “pulled under the water” and left to “breathe just enough” feels painfully real. It captures the part people often can’t explain, when everything looks normal from the outside and still something dark rolls in anyway.

What gives it heart is that you don’t fake a neat solution. You let the storm be ugly, confusing, irrational, and then still make room for compassion. Lines like “I know I’m not my feelings,”“sometimes shitty days exist,” and “sometimes survival is tough, even when you don’t fully understand what you are surviving” make the piece feel grounded and human. It doesn’t pretend healing is elegant. It says: stay, endure, let it pass. And that honesty matters.