Glass Castle

Music is my one of my biggest inspirations.  Occasionally I hear a very special song that inspires a scene or idea in my head and I write about it.  Sometimes the idea stands alone, sometimes it fits in with a project I'm already working on.  This particular poem of mine I wrote a few months ago, long before my brother introduced me to the song Castle of Glass by Linkin Park.  However, while I didn't write the poem after being inspired by the song, together they tell a similar story, and it's my hope that my readers will see the vision inspired by both.

Glass Castle

The girl sitting on the wall

With her arms around her legs

What is her story?

What hidden horrors does she escape

By staying after school?

She curls in the corner,

Being unobtrusive

She looks up at passerby

She walks through the halls

Trying her best to disappear

Trying not to catch an eye

No one spares a second thought

For one so evanescent

No one glances back to say hello

Why does she insist on loneliness?

What keeps her in her castle?

Hidden away, unreachable

By the outside world

Secluded from the land out there

Enclosed inside a crystal shell

She floats above the clouds

In her bubble of imagination

Spirited away on winds of thought

Away from this crooked world

Where she doesn’t belong