Walls Poem by Bryan Taplits

The walls they hugged me close
A kiss away were they,
Cages without bars,
much too near-never far
Four grilles at me grabbing,
ever entrenching and never far away.

Their graspings begot a narrowing ring,
As they came nearer, I sweated as the four unforgiving blights,
Recognizing there was no escape from this pool;
egress being for insipid fools,
…But then, I looked up and was saved-
by the expanse of my overhead skylight.