Labyrinth

• Bethany Nealon, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2021

Welcome to a world where left is right
And you’ll never know when it’s day or night
Every minute you choose to stay
The more your mind will decay
Welcome to a world where up is down
where I alone wear the crown
I dare you to try to make sense of it all,
the paintings that stare as you walk the hall
Is it a way out you crave?
I’m sorry but this will become your grave
For only I can navigate these halls
And only I can hear you calls
Give up, for there is no hope here
and let you mind disappear
spend the rest of your days with me
a ghost once a child of melancholy