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 I pick you from

Cold

Naked


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