Labyrinthine Ways  Right, left, up, down Round in circles I race Never able to face I am lost in the depths Deep in a labyrinthine place Of sinister construct A Hell's maze, one may say  Despair flying over my head As I said, into a tunnel I fled Now I am confused on how to escape Everywhere I turn is a dead end All I see is walls of bone and stone I feel this dread gnawing Taking nibbles and chunks My sanity consumed by blindness  I cannot break rock I have nothing to chip away At these bones that block my way All I can do is sit down and cry Until that day I die Down here, Lost in this labyrinthine mind.  11/1/20 – Andy McRae