Drowning
I've never experienced what it's like to drown, not physically
but I imagine it's similar to feeling as though you can't breathe. You try, but each breath sends fire down your lungs, head clouded, unable to hear anything as you fling your limbs around, attempting to grasp onto something, anything that can help keep you afloat.
But yet, there's nothing.
Nothing at all.
And so despite your best efforts, you continue to sink, further and further, but that doesn't stop you from trying. How can you when all rationality has left and the only thing you can feel is the cold, numbing water that contrasts the flames of your body.
And you open your eyes, praying that you can see a light, a way out of this prison of what was once a vision of calm, soothing blue. But at this point you're so far down that you don't know which way's up, which way's down
you try to keep fighting, but you just can't breathe. your muscles become harder to move. and you feel yourself drifting further down. until finally, you just let go.
I've never physically drowned.