Poems And Other Adventures

Trapped

Trapped outside my own mind,
Locked out without a key.
Can tell something’s wrong in there,
Something wrong with me.

I really need to fix this,
Where the heck’s the key?
Need to get inside,
Find out what’s wrong with me.

I thought my friends were with me.
I thought they’d help me out.
But then I finally realized,
They’re the ones who locked me out.

I need to get the key back,
I feeling more locked out.
I think I should steal it,
How else can I get out?

I walk up to my “friends”
They welcome me in nicely.
I know what they are doing,
They're lying to me.

I step up to face them,
They don't face me.
They ask me what's wrong,
I finally see the key!

“Give me that right now
How dare you lock me out!”
I go to grab the key,
but they've figured me out.

They run away from me,
They're getting away!
There so far out of reach,
I don't know what to say.

Maybe I should end this,
No more pain, no more suffering.
I walk into the bathroom,
I pull out the knife.

I start to go to work
But someone stops me.
“who are you? let me go!”
“no! please don't do this”
They scream back at me.

I slowly drop the knife,
As I turn around.
Standing there is someone
I've never seen around.

They're staring at me
Eyes like glass,
I feel a real connection,
“I need you to relax”

I keep staring,
While trying to back out.
They walk over to me
“Do you feel like you've been locked out?”

I look at them in horror,
How could they possibly know?
They pull me close beside them,
“I've been there too, I know”

Day to day they help me,
I'm feeling like myself.
I figure out my friends
Did not lock me out.

I work hard to improve myself,
My friends want to see,
I know that it's time,
Time to get the key.

I can finally look around,
I finally find the key.
After all this searching,
It was just inside of me.