Panic

Lying there, perfectly still,my heart begins to race,thunderous.The music from my headphones seems to amplify, louder than I can bare trying to drown out my thoughts.

Panic.

I can feel it rising through my body, my breathing becomes uneven.
My body writhing it consumes me a wave of fear, of pain, of anguish.
My back arches, I try desperately to fill my lungs, my head begins to spin, no air.
Stars illuminate the black inside my eyelids,my conscience screams and then nothing, fade to black.

I come around a song later, the fear and panic has fled from my body, the hostile visitor has fled. My heart beats normally once again.
I turn in my bed and hide beneath my covers, fearing the return of the panic, a stain in the calm of my mind.