My mind never stops racing

It runs

         And runs

                And runs

All day long

It sweats from exhaustion

Staining my cheeks with wet, salty trails

It burns and swells

  Beating

           Pounding

               Banging

Against my tender skull

I am drowning in my own pool of worries

Never able to swim up to take a breath

 Questions

     Answers

      Plans

            Wrong

                 Repeat

My mind has become an obsessive burden

It hungers for answers

It thirsts for reasons

This life was not meant to be understood

We are not meant to know the details of our future

And yet

My mind continues to run

To run a race that cannot be won