LOST IN THE LABYRINTH OF MY OWN BECOMING

Got lost in high hopes; better to be found.

Forgot: who gets lost doesn’t want to be found.

Regrets and guilts crawling up all around;

Tears screaming within, but eyes shut them down.

Losing patience and tolerance, putting life’s stakes beneath –

Would it be true or just a nightmare gone wrong?

Staring at the mirror with a presence behind me,

Why look so familiar, glaring to find me?

How come scenarios changed to and fro?

Sides switched in a minute or so.

At the entrance of a twisted corridor,

I find myself –

a stranger, and all alone.

Footsteps falter; mirror lined the walls,

Someone trapped behind them, yelling along.

Was it a threat or a glitch – sound?

I continue to walk, wanting to wake up

from this somnolence;

Wants turning to hopes.

Manipulation – what have you done?

Scattered fragments striving for whole;

Posed a question: who am I in this story untold?

Never thought fear would run in veins like this,

When a voice shouted, “Are you afraid, just by this?”

Seeking an Ariadne’s thread in a muse unknown,

Delved into the sea, navigating an unfamiliar destiny!