Put it in a box

With just enough space to move

Food and water

Not fed too much

Kept small

If it ever gets out

It will ruin your life

Break you from the inside out

Tear away your smallness

Leaving your magnificent nakedness

Nowhere to hide

The four-letter word

Stops you

Its deafening name

Will shatter you

Say it smaller

So it cannot hear

Lid shut tight

If you hear something beyond these walls

Ignore it

Say to yourself

It is not real

And it may leave you alone

Who the hell wants to be

With a craziness like this?

Who indeed…