Closing In

These four walls are closing in
The loneliness is claustrophobic
The shaky isolation pressing down on me
Burying me
Trapping me in place
I breathe as if my heart had just been broken
My mind races through the details of the silence
Adding to the pressure
My spine vibrates
Sending electricity throughout the rest of me
My blood freezes
And my skin boils
I'm writhing on a bed of nails
My eyes stay open to avoid seeing within
My thoughts tainted from an infected soul
I'm slipping away beneath the surface
Screaming through the countless layers of dirt above me
This room is now a coffin
My body now a prison
My mind a cell I've set on fire and locked myself inside