Disclaimer: I don't own HP or its characters.


Cage

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Trapped.

That's what I am.

Locked,

inside these four walls.

There is no way out.

All this time I've been here,

I've accepted this as my home.

My cage.

A torture chamber.

The beginning to my hell.

-0-

Forced to remember,

the moments that make life grimmer.

My world is pale.

I look at this

and I shudder each time,

I relive something;

close to my heart,

that leaves a pain,

I cannot wipe with a single finger.

-0-

My tears are spilling,

through this agony I'm bearing.

A chill is creeping in.

I fold in on myself.

Seeking a warmth,

I cannot not find.

How can I?

The cold has bitten,

every last breadth that I had kept lit;

holding on to the barest smile

and a match to light,

the darkness to my night.

-0-

My mind is a cavern.

I've lost all sense of time.

My cage is the only thing that is constant,

each time I wake or sleep.

I don't even notice what's around me.

It seems pointless.

A waste of time.

I know nothing is going to change.

-0-

As years pile on.

I grow weaker.

Old and erratic.

But my will has stayed,

alight like a beating heart,

alive like a breath of fresh air.

There is hope that is shadowing me,

from time to time.

My awareness has sharpened.

My eyes have cleared from the dull,

opaque sense they were.

A peek of colour has manifested

hinting a life of brightness

is yet to come.

My cage is opening.

Pushing me out.

Urging me to break the black abyss

that constantly held me back.

I am free.

I hope I don't regret it.