Life in the cage

You are lost

 

 

You come from a place unknown and you go to a place unknown

 

You have no way of knowing where it is and you have no point of reference to know where to return to

 

 

Everything you look at looks the same

 

 

You see cages

 

You see shadows

 

You see cages with shadows

 

 

You see your new home

 

 

You have lost

 

You have lost all that you had before

 

 

All that you enjoyed

 

All that you cherished

 

All that you hated

 

 

All that made you move forward

 

All that made you slow down

 

 

You take nothing with you

 

Nothing will be needed

 

Ever

 

 

You enter the cage

 

 

You enter it alone

 

You are naked

 

In body and mind

 

 

A hand pushes you forward

 

A door closes behind you

 

The sound fills your ears and mind

 

Until is subsides and disappears

 

 

You are indeed lost

 

 

You occupy a dark space

 

Empty

 

Lifeless

 

 

There is nothing to keep you company

 

Except shadows

 

Empty faces

 

Mouths that talk but say nothing

 

Bodies cold to the touch and to the heart

 

 

And here you are

 

A shadow among shadows

 

A shadow of what you were

 

 

Shadows keep you company

 

They have no form

 

Have no desires

 

Nothing to look forward to

 

 

They have lost all

 

They have lost hope

 

Hope in finding freedom

 

Hope in having a new beginning

 

Hope in returning to a time that will not return

 

 

The shadows walk around

 

Looking but not looking

 

Touching but not feeling

 

Sharing with nothing to share

 

They are as empty as the space they occupy

 

 

As you stay inside the cage you feel yourself fading

 

Time passes by and eats you

 

 

It hurts

 

A pain you cannot make go away

 

A pain without wound

 

 

But it bleeds

 

Inside

 

 

You choose to fight it

 

 

To feel the time you scratch the wall

 

Making time yours by looking at it

 

 

But time continues to pass

 

The markings never stopping

 

The pain never subsiding

 

 

From the shadows come whispered words you do not like

 

Words to open the mortal wound

 

Words to take the last beats from your heart

 

 

You have no place to return to

 

This is your home

 

 

You are one of us

 

 

You push the shadows away

 

Fighting them

 

Trying to grab the air where they are

 

 

You are truly lost

 

 

In this cage I find you

 

Waiving your hands

 

Naked

 

Lost and insane

 

 

A caged beast

 

Fighting to survive

 

To survive the meaningless that has fallen over you

 

The meaningless you became

 

 

A shadow

 

 

It is from this cage that I pick you

 

Cold

 

Feeling the last beats of your failing heart

 

With nothing to hold on to

 

 

I place my chain around your neck

 

To lock you up

 

To mark you as mine

 

 

To set you free