disorientation by coercion

odd couplings and eerie places,
it's uncanny, even fascinating,
how this owes to incongruous
juxtapositions in order to represent
unconscious thoughts and dreams

anxious, fear, panic,
rushing to the rescue,
a torch shed light,
the darkness is overpowering

stepping through a curtain
into the black space,
you are immediately confronted,
the faint lines of a doorway in the distance,
you are groping, towards something,
of course there are obstacles in your way
and just as surely, the room is empty

notorious sinister places where
alarming events have occurred,
beginning with the family home,
down corridors, into breathing holes,
through dark bathrooms and cellars

managing to entice you through,
the darkness purely seething,
the promise of light,
another identical room,
a child's mattress mysteriously
appearing on the floor,
a window, the ghostly glow of an
old film projector, eventually the exit,
disorientation by coercion,
this is the maze in which we all live and die in