Picture a box.
Inside are many other boxes.
There is only one box that opens up to the top.
There are many layers of the box.
Some boxes connect.
Some don’t
You started walking around the box.
It was fun at first.
But now you are lost.
It is pitch black.
You hear voices.
But can’t see where they are coming from.
You walk around the empty box,
and the voices get louder.
‘Fat’
‘Ugly’
‘Try hard’
‘Desperate’
The voices stop.
But you keep chanting them in your head.
‘Fat’
‘Ugly’
‘Try hard’
‘Desperate’
You place an imaginary brick down.
Another one.
And another,
until a small wall is built.
And even if you don’t realize it,
the wall makes you feel even more trapped.
You run to one side in panic,
Run to the other.
Banging on the walls.
Bang
Bang...
bang.
You breathe out.
And drop.
Your body goes weak.
It collides with the ground.
Slam.
‘Fat’
‘Ugly’
‘Try hard’
‘Desperate’
They get louder,
and louder,
in your head.
You feel something,
roll down your cheek.
You let yourself be weak,
in self pity.
And you cry.
And cry.
And cry.
Until.
You stop.
And you wait.
You wake up to the same dark room.
Slowly heaving yourself up.
And you think,
just a phase.
You find a door that connects to another box.
and you realize you are in a maze.
A maze of horror
