The Only Danger Poem by Tiffani Williams

As time g o e s,
These walls, they close
In on me, suffocating me.
But I’ll never be free
I don’t want to leave,
My safety zone
Theses four ways are my home
Though the old rooms spacing is fading
With every breath I’m taking,
The walls are thickening,
I’m more alone now then ever.
But I am safe,
I’m strong.
I shout all my secrets in this place.
They’ll never reach your ears.
I can keep them here.
I painted these walls in the blood that I’ve shed.
A brilliant cherry-red.
A new layer for every day
A new layer for every pain
Maybe that’s why the walls are thickening the first place
The oxygen I breath is becoming toxic carbon dixoide
As the air particales collide.
So contained, so closed up, like the hurt I bury deep.
I’m alright or so I pretend to believe,
I’ve tricked you, if I’m lucky, I’ll trick me
I’m safe, I say once more, believing it less.
Needing it more.
I’m okay, or so I want to believe.
The only danger no one has protected me from, not even this room
Is me.