Once have I  unlocked my  private prison cell.  I remember this overly familiar dark,smoky thin air behind. Her  forceful weight around my shoulders yet a light clammy hands on the skin on my arms. "Let me go." I said.  I took my decisive stride and and closed my eyes but here I saw her. Her face was down on the floor, her dry black hair, tousled and drenched. She bitterly wept. She bitterly wept.

There were walls around, no... I thought they were doors I was sure. Doors that could lead to other doors I presumed.  I swallowed in my fears  as  it choked me down my throat. However unreal and frightful to go, my spirit moved, stubbornly unrelenting. With every step, the clamorous cries caught me from behind like an echo to each tiny  footstep in the deep muted halls. With every step, a distance, where the trailing sound chased me until each tumultuous weeping turned into a languished screaming. It was still there but somehow as though the last few breaths between few words the dying struggles before a final gasp.

Then it was dead still.
I gave a halt and just stood there. It wasn't much a walk, was it? But I need to walk some more only that I couldn't tell which way right in the middle.  There's a wall although I could see the farthest end...almost...


There's a wall.  I am stuck on this wall, after all the other walls I thought were doors. I couldn't hear anything anymore. She wouldn't  cry now nor say the words but  her silence is a language itself.   So  hauntingly disturbing but when I turned to look behind, there were smiles on her tear-streaked face.
My  inmate was my own shadow.
There I  was. I lost at my own diffidence reminding me of my other losses.
How do I leave my shadow ?

Don't look at me now nor carelessly utter a word for I might now be able recognize any call beyond this wall and beyond those walls. If you're waiting somewhere upon one of those doors, have you looked behind you?  Should you listen to any sound wave, I wish you could shut it off  and smother its hallow cries to rest...

or

just learn to reconcile with your shadow 
or die inside the all-black maze.