A/N: Yo, this is just a poem I wrote for a short story called "The Sound of Hollyhocks"; it's actually an old English assignment. I thought it was pretty cool though, so please read and leave a review if you feel like it. Thanks!
~Raye Lynne
Hall of Mirrors
I built this crystal palace
From sacrifice and trust.
Here is where we'll stay forever,
Just the two of us.
And we'll reign in our castle,
Our every whim a rule
Free to live our lives together,
Our love our only fuel.
Until the day I look, and see
That you aren't there at all.
What has happened, I cannot say
But in the end, I take the fall.
Did we get separated?
Did you disappear?
All I know is I'm alone
And gripped in crushing fear.
Frenzied and frantic
Looking around
Desperately searching,
But you're nowhere to be found.
Every corner I turn,
Through each door I pass:
Just cold and unforgiving
Walls of mirrored glass.
The hallway looms before me,
Freezing me in place.
Eyes! Tens of hundreds
Staring me in the face.
I impale the glass with a gaze,
But I cannot recognize
The person leering back at me
With haunted, tortured eyes.
Without you here by my side,
I'm entirely someone else.
You were all I had, but now you've fled
Abandoning me to this hell.
I cannot breathe; I'm helpless,
In the grasp of the staring eyes.
My own reflections scream the truth,
Besieging my ravaged mind.
The crystal glitters, mocking me,
This god-forsaken place,
Once paradise, is prison.
God help me; I must escape!
Too late: the key's a long time lost,
I'm trapped forevermore
With the crippling irony of it all,
For I'm the one who locked the door.