Locked Away Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Running and searching for something that may never be found,
causing inner pain and quiet desperation.

Alone, an outcast, misunderstood on all accounts, left out
in the dark, no one to hold her.

Moving further into self, knowing that to become will cause
difficulty and much shame, preferring to hide away, never
coming out into the open again.

Sequestering all thought, imagination, creativity, memories,
images and ideas behind steel doors, locked away forevermore.

Existence of it all from this day forward, eternally denied
on any level or dimension.

Plastic curtains pulled shut, suffocating life, keeping it
from an existence in name only.