Poem – Lady in the Crystal Tower

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Lady in the Crystal Tower

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Oh, lady in your crystal tower,

Bespeak the dreams you had to me

Of knights and flowers and gracious things

And one fond love to set you free.

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Your daily vigil you did keep

So promises would come true.

But belief was built of faith alone,

And joyous hopes replaced by rue.

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Your crystal tower is a fragile thing.

It’s an illusion of your mind.

But it gave you recluse from a world

Where the Ideal was hard to find.

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Your Ideals are flowers of inner self,

A gentle heart that craved to give.

But flowers wither without the light,

That truth provides that one may live.

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Your days are lonely in your tower

Gazing out your window to the sea.

Sunlight no longer shines upon your heart.

Truth no longer seems like liberty.

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Vain patience brought you to your end.

Your quest in life did end in naught.

And grains of time did quickly fall

As rejection poured from those you sought.

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Oh, lady in your crystal tower

Please don’t withdraw, please talk to me.

I want to care, I want to help

You, in your deep despondency.