These Four Walls

These four walls

do not converge physically.

The problem is mental,

And the convergence

is entirely a product of my imagination.

I see them stationary,

But I feel them moving,

Closing in on me and my sanity,

Crushing my spirit in the process.

The problem may be

that the walls are only four,

and I need more.

I need more options, directions,

To face up to myself,

My reflection in the reflective glass

Directions enough to make the polygon look circular

I want to see myself as all-rounded.

These four walls

make me forget there’s a door,

that there are no walls enclosing the globe,

that the globe is not enclosing my mind,

that I don’t have to see mirrors everywhere I go.

These walls make me delusional.

They’re full of beings;

They people the enclosed space –

And for some strange reason,

I am not one of them.

The beings make me feel

less than a being.

I am being

Suppressed by comparison.

And yet, the beings within the walls

Are not all.

Four years, four walls.

They seem to get stronger

But one day, they’ll fall.

One day, in the near future,

I’ll be free from it all.

These four walls have to let me go.

I want to leave now,

But circumstances say no.

Unfortunately, I use the walls’ materials

To build my own complex,

Though I still see my artistry

as crazily inferior.

These four walls

get mad at me

But that’s okay;

I don’t like them either.

Either way,

One day, I’ll be released

And realise that really, I’m not the least.

-Akotowaa