Life can be a constant struggle with yourself - you can be at the top of the world one minute and the next your mind can be one big, red, flashing light threatening to scare away all the happiness you'd been exuding. It happens to everyone, whether they'd like to admit it or not. Whether its stress, anxiety, fear, or any other overwhelming negativity, it is important to remember that you don't have to power through the flashing red lights of your mind on your own. Even if you feel like you are the only person on the Earth trying to stop them. Because you aren't. You are never completely alone, no matter how alone they may make you feel.

A poem about the overwhelming negative emotions people face everyday that brings attention to the fact that you do not have to battle your toughest times alone.

Red Lights Flashing

Full-throttle, sudden-crash -

the inevitable red lights flashed.

A warning so blinding, so powerful, so feared –

unstoppable at its strongest, it abruptly appeared.

Seizing the mind, the tear ducts, then the dread –

trepidation in the wake, of the inexorable hazard ahead.

Stopping it, the plea –

the solution, to flee.

Always there, evermore haunting –

tied and twisted inside-out, always wanting.

Feeding on the world, as it toppled over –

as the overwhelming force of the panic passed-over.

No halting it now, breaths more shallow –

thoughts inescapable, skin so sallow.

But the truth of the matter, so painful but real –

the globe continued turning despite the red lights' yearn to keel.

For they flashed, unending and frightening and swift –

inside all hearts hiding a rift.

Through the cracks of the shattered and broken –

shined the lights, lights that had forespoken.

Of looming pains and returning pasts –

warnings not of reality, but of frights, of improbable blasts.

But the unavoidable truth, oh so absolute –

the longer the lights flashed, the deeper they took root.

And the deeper they dug, the darker the hole –

of deceptive qualms prying to be decontrolled.

But once in the hole, there appears no escape –

the lights still flash, equally as bright, just a change of shape.

It shrinks and conforms to show you what you know –

that your controlled and your trapped, your head and your heart threatening to blow.