Perfect Prison

Agoraphobia, and how some people react to it, when hearing this.

You do see the war

Which wages

Inside of me

On the psychic battlefield.

 

And yet

You judge me

By carrying out

Your sentencing

Without hearing my side.

 

Of the invisible walls

That contain my body

Stronger than

The hardest metal

Known to humanity.

 

But everyone else

Can walk through it

Like it never existed.

 

Except

Within my mind.

 

So frustrated

I want to

Drop "the bomb"

Destroying everything

Just to escape.

 

Do you understand

The depth of my struggle

To be functional?

 

Upon reflection

Probably not

Pity.

Author's Note

Originally written, August 19, 2014.