Where To Next?

Interred

It feels like no air

Seen, seeing

But not heard

They poke and prod

Take blood, ask questions

Committed

Noncommittal

Want out, want gone

But where to next?

This place, unsafe

But safe, afraid

The damage done

Would be permanent

The concrete solution

To the temporary problem

But where to next?

Can’t just go back

Here to help my mental health

Here to move forward

Here to increase my knowledge

Here to interrupt

My ice cream is not gelato

But what is it

An interruption, that goes otherwise,

Seamless, yet,

Fractured

Not a parade of ticker tape

A parade of red tape