The Place That Cannot Be Left
Trapped like a rat or wingless bird in a cage. No one can leave this place. It is the place no one ever escapes from. I am too broken to live, alive enough to exist. I am not a man. I am the shadow of a man. In this place, I have become the eroded memory of a man. My body is worn thin with hunger, the colour of my face is washed out with disease, leaving me green and weathered and faint like an…