Purity and Lies

She sees a world.

One we will never know.

It is flawless and safe,

nature and man living in harmony,

the skies forever blue

and the sun always shining above,

not a cloud mars the horizon.

She sits alone in her room,

holding sticks of red and blue,

letting them bleed out onto sheets,

releasing her thoughts for all to see.

She's never seen the world outside of these white walls,

she's never seen the suffering and heartbreak.

In her head, she dances with butterflies

and rules supreme of her fantasies.

They say, "Let her be"

and no one objects.

Here she stays, inside these clean walls,

a pure child trapped in the body of a woman.