The smallest room can feel like a cavern
When you’re alone with your own fear and insecurities

As I sit on an unfamiliar bed, with unfamiliar sheets
And listen to the sound of an unfamiliar person

Am I changed forever now?
What is coming for me in the future?

Uninitiated, yet thrown into a world dominated by pain and self hate
I learned quickly.

Buried memories, creeping forth on their own, again
Greyed and dusty, but moving to the front of my mind

Breaking out of the darkness
The monster that you worked hard to believe was never real

Bringing your own light forthTo an inevitable confrontation
Is this the time your nightmares are slain?

They retreat again, defeated but not destroyed
Beaten back into submission to recoup

Until they once again emerge.