When you are your worst enemy

When you are your worst enemy, you are trapped in a self made cage locked in a forest with blood thirsty animals biting and clawing the cage with their sharp teeth, peering their nails through the slits ready to slash your flesh.

When you are your worst enemy you don’t reach for the key hanging on your chest securely tied around your neck to unlock the door and set yourself free. There are dangers outside the cage that are by far worst. You let the fears edge you enough without giving you the confidence to fight the heard because that’s when you will be clawed to death.

When you’re your worst enemy, you dance close to death without letting it take over you. You tell yourself that you belong in this cage living so close to death, yet holding yourself caged against it. When the night falls, you don’t scream for help, you feel at peace in the darkness that you long for — when you’re your worst enemy.

An unseen shadow of yourself, you live in the existence of your imagination, only looking for confirmations of your self loathing beliefs. You know that you can challenge yourself, you know that you are wrong, but you don’t because you are your own worst enemy. You let your imagination build a thicker fortress around why you can’t be free