I‘m trapped in an ever shrinking space, unable to escape
No door, no windows, just walls closing in, suffocating Panicked scrambling leads nowhere, no way out Pounding on the walls with bloodied fists Tears well up as efforts fail Blind fear, heavy silence crushing Can’t scream, no air Walls crushing me Can’t breathe Trapped |
Caro Icardi writes, "This is how it feels to be afraid of tight spaces." Editors appreciated how this fear of tight spaces works with the 10-to-1 format, giving readers a sense that the poem, and perhaps the walls, are trapping them. Caro Icardi is in 12th grade and attends Regina High School.