gale-force wind

The doors can stay open for days at a time, and then, just as suddenly as they're flung open, they're slammed shut again, going whichever way the wind blows, and going against whichever side the boundaries fall.

And once again, I'm standing on the outside, shut out of a world I could barely set foot in in the first place. To have come so dangerously close to breaking, and just like that, to be made to keep it all in.