Poem - From the Inside

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Among the crowd you are carried along
On a pressure of bodies thick as whim
Avalanching hands of ghosts reaching
And stripping away every tiny will.

You are enclosed in a room without walls
Ever searching for, even briefly, a door
That never seems to materialize
Beyond the fog and the crush confusion.

No such thing as sitting in the stillness
This is the perpetual emotion
When what holds you together is thread bare
All the ends frayed and stripped to flashing nerves.

Around each turn a chance to unravel
Caught on the shards of the last time you broke
Wrap what is left around you in shelter
So the escape remains undiscovered.

Sleep now in this fitful desolation
Surrounded by these ghosts thought long past
Show the world a fiction of calm locked away
By walls somewhere far from comprehension.