Reality Is Closing In On Me

Reality Is Closing In On Me

1. There are days I wake up and everything feels already decided, like life signed papers I never read and I’m only now learning the terms.

2. The air feels heavier in the morning, not because it changed— but because I did.

3. Even silence is not silent anymore. It speaks in reminders I didn’t ask for: unfinished dreams, delayed beginnings, the version of me that never arrived.

4. I walk through the hours slowly, as if speed might break something important. But nothing breaks. It just continues… without me.

5. People pass by like they still believe in time. I used to believe too. Now I count it instead of living it.

6. And still—there are small moments that don’t completely give up on me. Light through a window that feels almost forgiving. A breath that doesn’t feel like surrender. A thought that says, not everything is gone yet.

7. But reality doesn’t loosen its grip. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t rush. It simply becomes more real until you can no longer pretend it isn’t there.

8. And maybe that’s the hardest part— not that life is ending… but that it keeps continuing even when I feel left behind inside it.

9. Still, I move forward because stopping feels like disappearing and I’m not ready for that kind of silence.

But I know now—

Reality is closing in on me… and I am finally learning that even truth can feel like a cage.