Boxes

An open cardboard box on a weathered wooden table with tape and scissors beside it, ready for packing.

Boxes

Inside my mind 

Boxes of memories and trauma 

Stored away  

Stuffed down  

Never to be opened  

Never to be thought of 

The fear of openness 

The fear of unveiling  

The fear of opening the boxes  

Controls my every move  

Consumes my waking day  

Terrorizes my dreams