Poem #19 : The Girl in the Glass Cage

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She sat quietly in the corner

The voices were her armor

She could never fit in, 

For she was controlled by what was within.

People called her odd and strange

But they didn't know she was in a cage,

A glass cage, alone, with the voices.

All she ever heard was their noises,

The outside world was an enigma

And the caged girl, a stigma.

She rattled the glass cage 

Screaming and shouting with rage

Nobody could hear a sound

For she was bound--

To the voices, and stayed behind the glass 

Caged, broken and crass.

Little did she know she had choices

And could have left the voices.

But she sat quietly in the corner

Thinking the voices were her armor.

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