floating for aegis

angst and anguish
teeming over
cracking, bursting through
the conscious levee
flooding out
drowning logic and sense
suffocating
the person inside
who lies
floating face down
eyes closed
drifting slowly with
small bubbling breaths
that shout and cry
through a soundless sea
of cold hands
too far to reach.
lost--floating
pretending to hope
for that aegis
of the heart