A/N: This isn't exactly a fan fiction but more like "impact of the movie on my life" fiction. I thought I'd post it here anyway so that you guys could comment on it if you want to.
No Power
One line kept me questioning
Refusing to subjugate my entire mind to your control
I bet you didn't think Jim Henson had that ability
To lock sanity within a person's mind
Underneath the guise of fantasy
But he did, along with Frank Oz, Brian Henson,
David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, and all the others
One line to keep me sane,
Keeping apart forever the worlds of my creating
From you control, from your power
You took the power of my life away from me
Never allowing me the freedom to express
Except in the worlds I created
Where the words kept your power at bay
The right words, given to me in ignorance
That set loose a tsunami within my mind
A world where freedom did not mean slavery
A world where love did not mean guilt and shame
A world where knowledge did not mean ignorance
A world where you did not exist
I realize it now, in a way I never could before:
The power of the words to set free
The power of the goblins to show the way
You made me believe I had no power
But the Goblin King showed me otherwise
Just as the Henson made me believe in something real
Tangible proof that I was not insane
As you had led me to believe
Because of my dreamer's heart and soul
Proof that reality may be black and white
But what are black and white, but shades of grey?
It's clear now, the way things were
The way things ought to be
The way things should never return to
Reality should never include fear - you said so yourselves
But the reality you gave me was nothing but fear
And shame, and guilt, and anger
Deceit, perhaps, most of all
But in that one moment the Henson gave me
The thought encapsulated in one line
Just six words long, a few syllables at most
Clarity of mind and being
Because in my world, it is not spoken to a king
But a thief, and a scoundrel, and a liar
The words are spoken to a coward wearing Gilgamesh's robes
It was Fate, that the one portion of my mind
Untouched by your greedy, sinful hands
Saved the entirety of my soul
With six words you will never be able to erase
You have no power over how I dress
No power over what I eat
No power over whom I befriend
No power over what I believe
No power over how I feel
And most of all,
At long last I have realized this truth:
You have no power over me
A/N: Now that you've read it I'll explain a little: I grew up in a church that was mega controlling through fear tactics, and went so far as to cause members to doubt their own minds and thoughts. Life is hardly worth living if you can't even trust your own mind. Very recently I left that church (it was really an accident, but the end result was the same). I first saw Labyrinth when I was a toddler and let's just say it stuck.