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Running in Circles


I'm running My feet are pounding against the surface I hear my heart beating in my ears My breath quickens as I am frantically trying to find a way out I'm Trapped by the walls within my head Every turn is quick and smooth but always black Nothing seems to have changed The blackness closes in on me Soon every frantic turn feels like I'm running into a wall The next turn seems to hurt as much as the last I'm scared, I whimper, I'm looking for a way out, I see a door I'm beating my hands against a closed door I cry out hoping for someone to hear me Hoping its all a dream But really as it all settles in I see that it's actually reality It's worse than the anxiety and suffocation I feel It's the real world and it waits for no one you are either in or out I give up, I fail, I surrender, I have been defeated by the real world.
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