Shapeshifter

There is this shapeshifter that lives within

Changing every minute

Every hour

Everyday

I can’t see their face

I know them as the nothing

For it’s the name of the demons trapped inside

Locked behind a steal re-enforced door

Seeing their shadows move back and forth

Trying to find a way to slide under the slits

Through the cracks it may find

One minute it’s quiet

The next it’s howling and banging at the door

Wanting to be brought to the other side

The nothing shifts from a shadow

To something more of a man

A man carrying what I only fear

What little light that is in this room

Reflects off the object

I see right away

That it’s the thing I fear most

The door shifts with the man

Shifts to glass windows

For the object is now scraping against the glass

This figure is trying to get to me

The scratching sounds never make a mark

Shock shows upon my face

Yet again man shifts

Shifts to an animal that was once caged

The room shifts again

With red lights that hang above

Barriers still in place blocking it from me

I don’t know how much longer

The longer I fight the mind games

Quicker it shifts

The room shifts with it

To match the anger that it feels

Until the nothing returns

The steal door shows once more