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Four Walls

April 27, 2016
By SkyeRae BRONZE, Indianapolis, Indiana
SkyeRae BRONZE, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Favorite Quote:
“I can’t go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” --Lewis Carol's Alice in Wonderland


I'm sitting alone
Alone with four walls
No doors, no windows
No no way out
at all


These walls wont be quiet
I can hear them scream
The first one I face,
Is steadily taunting me

It calls itself "Self Conscious" 
And it's the most annoying of all
It's words bring me to my knees
It's laugh echos as I fall  
 

I will eventually rise
But somehow weaker than before
And blinking stinging tears from my eyes
I sit back down on the floor

Now I find myself facing "Anxiety"
The hardest to ignore of them all
It quivers constantly in panic
Damaging me, itself, and the other walls


It fills the room with every known fear
It trembles and the entire room shakes
And it doesn't dare to let anyone else hear
Anyone else
but me


I run away from the wall
I run to the other side
This one's full of hate
The wall I call "Despise"


All it does is huff and yell
Complaining about everything
And I'm ready to start yelling myself
Anger boils withing my being

 

It speaks of how awful the other walls are
But proposes no solution
It makes fun of creationism
Hypocritically hates those to diss evolution

This wall makes me tingle
My veins prick with bubbly heat
And I force myself to walk away
Before my fist and it meet


The last wall is something else
It never laughs or speaks
Unlike the other walls it seems
It desires simply
nothing

I call it "Empty"
And we both sit and stare
Watching one another
And I no longer care

It's presence creates absence
Just existing there
Is enough to make my bones
Ache with despair 

As I stare into dark orbs,
There's this strange 
spark
I see
And then it all becomes as clear
As the reflection before me 


I'm sitting alone
Alone with four walls
Only now I see all along
They weren't walls at all 


I'm sitting alone
Me myself and I
Surrounded by mirrors,
I watch myself cry



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