Can't Breathe

Your clinging fingers
Choke my throat
My breath comes short
I cough violently
While you yell in my ear
I struggle to breathe
I cannot talk
You do not mean to do this to me
You do not know
No one knows
Depression hangs around my throat
Like a hangmans noose
My words clog my windpipe
Cannot breathe, cannot talk
Cannot ask for help