I built a palace for myself, and even those who I let in never stayed for long..they visited, but I never accepted any settlement because I knew the consequences. So there I stayed in my palace in hapiness and with independence.
Until....until...you
You arrived one day and you visited but you stayed longer..longer be than you should have. I told you to leave and you refused. For the first time someone refused. I pushed and pushed but it seemed that you grew on that spot and were forever never moving. And when you did leave it was only to come back. I didn't want you to come and I willed for my palace to listen and shut you out, but it seemed like their doors open even wider with your every return, and it became so common that I too let you enter. I had my downfalls with your presence but overall it was worth it...time passed and the flowers flourished and my heart softened..and the door were always open. It was perfect..good..for a while.
There came that day I expected you to be there in your spot, always there....but all that was left was emptiness..and it was strange, foreign... and then the attacks came....hellfire raining down on my palace, destroying the creation I spent so long creating, never would I have thought it would be like this. And it took some time before I knew the reason was you...your presence, forcing my door open, leaving me vulnerable, weak. It was all you. When the battles stopped, my palace laid in ruins, silent as the winds that pass me now.
And as angry as I was, I didn't blame you. I never wanted you in anyways...but it pained me so that my beauty had fallen to my feet. That my work had been now worth nothing. That I was useless.
And because of that, there were no visitors at all...no one to come to my rescue.
So I lie here now in the debris of my palace, putting small pieces back together, then putting those prices together to make something bigger. I won't let this be the end and I won't let my palace door open again...but I appreciated the memories you gave to me while they lasted....I won't lie.
