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.

I 
  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.