It was that day

that sealed my fate.

I took a step through the gate

and walked forward.

Now, I find myself lost,

trapped

staring at the sky

where life could have led me.

And I cannot find my way out

of this dark maze.

If I look past the jumpscares

of every dead end

I would find inside these walls

the memories

of someone I never knew.

Thousands of restless spirits

shout a name through the night,

a name I cannot place

and never will.

Every turn

every time I backtrack

there is no end.

I stepped here

thinking there would be a finish line

but there is not.

So every night I lie down to sleep

in tortured breaths and glossy eyes

never knowing

that the name you shriek, and sob,

to the sky at dawn

is mine.