Boxes

The possibilities
     contained here
  are limitless
          and
       limiting.

I knock on each box
   from the outside
     to find a way in
     to find my role
               my niche
               my place.

Creating cracks,
   I push myself
                further
     into boxes
       to try
       to belong
           somewhere.

Twisted backward,
            contorted
            bent,
      my limbs
            abilities
              and
            qualities
                     don’t fit.


  flail
       inadvertently
     and
  ooze out
       unwittingly.

Being pushed
   that hard
      into something so
            confined
   I am disintegrating
   I am decaying
   I am decomposing
   I am no longer
        me.