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In a crystal pyramid — a princess — sleeps
	despite all outward indications
Awaking — she stretches — to breathe
	and is blocked — cold — by stern unyielding glass
	never dare to move — back in your place
Awaking — she stretches — tendrils — to touch another crystal soul
	and is blocked — iron bars like crystal stone 
	tendrils shrivel — reaching through — electrifying pain
Awaking — she stretches — to tell her anguish to an angry world
	and is blocked — a rude world shoves her to her claustrophobic place
	without hearing a word of her complaint
You are nothing — nothing, crystal child
	with a breath, I could shatter you
Constrained to transparent sheath — she does not dare to breathe
You feel nothing — nothing, crystal child
	infant tears are useless to wash away your prison
Confined in transparent shell — she does not dare to weep
Painful thoughts fermenting — reverberate in her forcedly narrowed mind
	one day — promise to herself — with desperate simplicity
	she will awaken
Crystal cry — crystal child shatters crystal walls
	with vibrating fingertips she will set the world afire
	the walls will crack to echo the sound in emptiness
In a crystal pyramid — a princess sleeps
	on a diet of false promise and forlorn hopes
	and believes her future is still her own