Nowhere To Go

She donned a lavender dress With her best shoes to match Rings on her fingers And on her shoulders her hair sat Lips as red as rubies Eyes pierced with gold A soft liveliness was there But showed not as bold A hat of straw and flowers With a ribbon tied around Completed the outfit's look But the lady She was down Staring out the window And used her feet to tap the floor Close to tears she was But what did she long for Not a carriage made of silver Nor a Duke or a marque As painted fingernails tapped the glass While she counted (One two Three) The outside was so bright But her room was in the dark The curtains slightly opened Enough to hear a dog bark Her beauty was not grand Or at a lower status It was somewhat in between But oh why did it matter Dust clustered the room And the doors were shut tight She was a bird trapped in a cage With no hope of flight Her voice was raspy and shrewd And not flattering in any way Because if she uttered a word Her fear would start again Once she had riches More then she could ever ask for And then life was ripped away from her So she stayed silent and cried no more For here she sits day by day Like a river with no flow The lady was all dressed up But she had nowhere to go