Why So?

Why so cold
Shivering in the night
All alone in the dark
No one there to hold

Why so grim
Locked away in your tower
No way down to the ground
Watching out the window

Why so calm
When there’s no adventure waiting
No dragon to ride into the sky
Fairy tales don’t happen here

Why so grey
Every single feeling
Wrapped up in your own thoughts
Unable to break free of this shell

Why so angry
When no one but you is at fault
And the chances you blew or didn’t
Bother to take were all your own doing

Why so stuck
With this pain sitting in your chest
Unwilling to pick yourself back up
Not knowing how to resuscitate

Why so scared
You never really try anyway
Never allow yourself to get hurt
So nothing ever happens to you

Why so smart
If you don’t ever do anything with it
There’s so much good you could do
So many possible ways to improve

Why so small
Acting like you’re fragile just so others
Will take care of you, how are you
Supposed to ever grow up at all

Why so lost
Stumbling down the rabbit hole
With no one below to catch you
Have to learn how to fall after all