But the maze likes to play games
But it never tells me which one it picks once I’m inside
Sometimes it has Fear follow me in here
Making me have to run to keep it out of reach
Always knowing how to hit me where it hurts
I keep running despite the pain
Not letting it know it’s slowly crippling me
I hit a dead end, out of breath and weak
I turn around to keep running
But Fear has already caught up to me
After only one wrong move Cornering me slowly
Sometimes I walk around in here
Breathing in the open air
Smiling to myself as I drag my hands over it’s garden walls
The maze singing happily along with me
Sometimes the maze gets tired of this beautiful scene
Closing off all exit and entry ways
The walls turning into thorny vines
Cutting me every time I fall
I trudge through the water
I get to the end to find out I’m locked inside
The singing stops, its voice telling me every reason it should keep me here
But the water eventually over flows
Me waiting on the way out
The maze not knowing I can swim
Leaving with wounds I have to fix
Sometimes the maze goes silent
Shutting down all life forms
It’s walls slowly dying around me
The air turns cold, trying to chase the heat
Something I can never seem to reach
It leaving me to find my own way out in the dark
Looking for the exit I can’t see
Sometimes I’ll be walking along here perfectly fine
Enjoying the life it’s giving me
But then the maze gets bored
It wanting to play another dirty game
As I walk along, each dead end turns into a scene
A scene of flashbacks and flash forwards
The walls of unfortunate true and false pretenses
It blaming all pain caused, on me
As I take each wrong turn
As if I have a choice to not see it
It likes to turn up the volume making sure I’m still hearing it in the distance as I walk away
You’d think I’d know the maze by heart now
The years I’ve spent in here
But the walls change and grow in all new directions every time I enter
Sometimes I’m frozen at the entrance
I know it can be beautiful
But the beautiful never lasts
Afraid to have to face anything at all
Sometimes I’m pushed in anyway
Having to expect the unexpected
Always expecting the worst and still being caught by surprise by any game it chooses
