From Within My Castle Walls

October 25, 2018

My mind is a castle, I wander its halls.

Searching for answers in a never-ending maze,

Unopened doors to unheard of lands, stairs leading nowhere,

All within my castle walls.

It’s got a thousand people inside and all of them are me.

A constant conversation to pass fleeting time,

Arguing to entertain, reevaluating life,

If my castle can be quiet, I’ve never heard it.

I talk to the shadows and they answer back.

They follow me, watch me, keep me company in the dark,

But fade away when light reveals what my heart cannot.

My shadow friends, I keep close, only in my castle can they come to life.

It’s surrounded by walls to keep out the world

That windows look down on from where I hide.

Rose-colored windows see beauty in dirt.

Sometimes I only see ashes and dust.

A village resides where my windows look.

I see it so clearly, yet it’s distorted by glass.

I watch the villagers talk, laugh, and play,

And call out in reply just to find,

My words can’t breach through my castle’s thick walls.

It’s my home away from home, the only place I’m truly myself.

I feel so comfortable here, it scares me.

It’s too hard to leave, its walls always draw me back in.

It’s the place where I run to when I need to escape,

Yet lately it’s the place I’ve needed to escape from the most.

I built myself a castle to shelter me from the world-

Made stairways and mazes, doorways and halls.

Lost myself in wonders and mysteries inside.

But I built my walls too thick, my maze too deep,

And forgot the door out

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