Adolescence

Amidst the cacophony of raging emotions In a nexus of conflicting passions Lies a beguiled soul He is embedded in a labyrinth of racing thoughts And interlocking fears He investigates his surroundings While a sinking sensation grips him Immobile in feeling He plots his course Frozen in indecision Trying out different personas He reaches invisibility As he grasps to others for direction Becoming as lost as ever When will the conflict end? When will stability be attained? He thrashes around in the cage of his existence Finding a spot to land on Arriving nowhere He cradles himself in a bubble Peering out from the chains he’s strapped in Hoping for a beam of sunshine to pierce through One day the solution will come And things will regain their meaning Until then, he’ll remain with the entanglement that is now referred to as existence…