Closed Off In A Cacoon

Behind the walls of the prison

Each in their separate cells

Two souls tried to reach out

To the other.

One could not see but could speak

She poured her heart out

To the stranger

Perhaps swept by the tides of loneliness.

The other could hear,

But could not speak

He stammered a few monosyllables

For his mind had his heart muted

Perhaps by reason.

As days went by

Between them,

A thick fog of obscurity

Began to gather

It looked like the lengthened shadow

Of loneliness

Like the fathomless void

Of paranoid caution

Like the crippling constraints

Of sickening helplessness.

And the day arrived

When each other heard no more

Of the voice from the other side

They remained souls imprisoned forever

In silence

Behind the impenetrable walls

Of their prison

Though the doors were left unlocked

And the gates

Always left open......