Voices are around me,
They taunt and laugh.
Each voice strikes daggers to my heart,
Cannot catch my breath, I feel closed in.
Need to be free.
I have to run away, away from the voices.
The walls have no doors.
The voices are louder, "You are a Void of Despair."
"End the pain and torment," I whisper.
"No, suffering teaches us Valiancy."
A coldness touches my face, then a hot breath.
"You are insufficient as a human."
I doubt what I am
* This poem has been published in the book A Pleasant Reverie
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