Its All In Your Mind

I wake as if it's an emergency, as if sleeping had become a dangerous thing.

My heart beats fast and there is a buzzing in my brainand together they are in panic; last night felt like a marathon of erratic problem-solving.

This is a day that I not only fear, but feel a sense of suffocation from.

Today is the day that I have to thoroughly cover my identity, and hide my differences from society...