A shut-in feeling
invested deep in a mind,
loses out life
and leaves it behind.
No one shows worry
no one shows care,
people surround you
but aren't really there.
Blackness and emptiness
are your only friends.
the walls are closing in
but nothing defends.
Life has led you
and left you alone,
for life is a slingshot
and you are the stone.
-- Kelly-Michener "The Slingshot"