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.
