Trapped

Alone in a room, so dark and crowded, with creatures of the dawn, my mind is clouded. My heart, eyes, and ears bleed with emptiness and shame. For these creatures amongst me I can not name. I feel suffocated, breathlessly dying in my own arms. For there is no one here to cherish me or keep me from harm. I struggle to breathe, to get away from this horrid place. But my exit is running away from me; I am the turtle in this hare's race. For those faceless around me laugh with pity and glee. Haunting my sound, trying to smother and trap me. Pulling me into the darkness for ever once more. But I pull and push; trying to make it through love's door. Broken with deception, I crumble and burn. For this unhappiness I've been granted wasn't earned.