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WARNINGS: Mental Health Issues

I had pushed the bed to the corner and perched myself upon it. Curled in a ball i sat wide eyed and terrified, my limbs twitched begging to pace circles that lead no-where. Trapped in this padded room, no doors and no windows. I want to scream let my voice be heard, but I could not. Mute, terrified and alone, I sit. And thats when the voices begin to chime in...
"Run."
"Escape."
"Kill."
"Harm."
They say. They repeat with more and more gruesome details. Planting images, thoughts, horrid scenarios. I begin to cry. Never aloud, never in reality. Only trapped in my own head. Sometimes I hear one lone voice whisper the good things.
"Hang on."
"Your going to be okay."
"You got this!"
It shouts, as if from a distance. It is quickly drowned out by the other horrid voices. The ones that only want destruction. Yes, the shadows, the demons. Perhaps they aren't just demons, maybe they are mine...
My demons.

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