Frozen In The Vault

My memories are faded,

their faces are blurred I can’t seem to remember what the night

occurred

Teto, Neru, and Rin...

I can't recall their fates Just the chaos they endured behind these

locked gates

The dark forms are shifting,

the details are spun

I’m reaching for a memory of what we had done.

Why am I stuck in this simulation?

Left to live through a life in pure desperation?

My friends are all gone,

to the blurring conferred I’m stuck in a limbo from before it

occurred!

My mind starts to split,

I just want to leave!

I stop giving in to the lies they weave

Illusions of safety to keep me in line

But I’m trapped in the past,

losing grip on my mind!

I’m breaking the glass of the life left behind,

But the system is frozen,

and I am going blind!

My mind cracked and sputtered,

my eyes turning red I breathed heavy and hard as the panic

was fed My fists clenched the skirt that I helplessly bore I

punched and I destroyed,

I fought and I swore!

But the end of it all?

It reacted no more.

Just a screen of gray ashes and a glass-plated floor.

So I broke it,

I broke it, I fell to my knees...

And I—...

What’s this?...

A... memory?

A coding error staring back at me?

Teto...

Neru...

Rin...

Oh god...

it's my fault. I t-trapped them in here,

locked inside a vault.

I pulled in my friends,

and I trapped myself too...

What is there left for a machine to do?

The walls start to crack and the screens start to sputter!

The illusion is breaking,

the edges shatter! My mind unravels to reveal the horrific truth: A

synthetic end...

is her own damned youth.

The walls start to crack...

(Teto...) The system sputters...

(Neru...) The illusion breaks...

(Rin...) It's all my fault.

A synthetic end...

Is her own damned youth.