Captured

I had a daydream once.

I fell into a dark hole.

I could not see anything.

All black everything.

Maybe they were shadows,

All my shadows in a room with me.

You would think seeing another me

Would make everything more clear.

I was basically blinded.

Imagine looking at 1,000 images of yourself

Times 300,000.

Why 3? Because I know my favorite number.

Overwhelming

Maybe that is why I can't see. 

Too much for my eyes to handle.

Casted a slow virus on my iris.

Slowly affecting my other senses.

Not only can I not see.

I can not smell.

Or is there even anything to smell.

I feel nothing.

Not even my own hands.

Reaching out and feeling emptiness.

I do not think I can feel my heart beat.

Emotionless.

Careless.

I can hear something.

But I think it is my own voice.

Maybe my shadows are talking to me

or it could all be in my head.

Only I really Know.

I am not sure if I can taste

Because there is nothing to taste...

Besides myself....

Awkward thoughts.

Do other people have dreams like this?

I asked myself

One shadow whispered to another.

I hate secrets.

They make me feel blinded

Oh wait....

There are no secrets here.

Yet I am sightless.

My ironic iris.

This is not a nightmare

Because I am not scared

But I am not happy.

I am just here

multiple times

Stuck.

I can't function

So how would I escape?

This black hole got me good.

What can really capture you besides yourself?

Reviews

[DIVYA]

So true. What can really capture us besides our self. Very powerful.

[Hitchhiker]

Seems to me there are underpinnings of different things in your life which come through in this poem. It is difficult for me to project, because somehow I feel your written words are meant as kind of a subterfuge. The first two stanza's come across that way to me in a sense. Eh . . . Maybe I'm just trying to make the poem something that it isn't . . .

[Ena Lona Kendra]

Wow. That was amazing. I would love it of you messaged me and helped me with my poem.I would love to look inside your head.

[John Byrd]

Thank you so much! Will do :)