Vortex

There was once a girl who ran away from her home on the hill

she ran and ran until she was deep in the forest

once she was there, things started to change
her legs moved strange
and they took her to stranger places

when she came to the end of the trail, she found a great big room

and each wall had a mirror,

that grew more and more distorted

her vision of herself changing, changed

she got up close to a mirror and tugged on the edge

behind the glass, a window

she couldn't quite see through it

she only felt dizzy

and fell right on through

she fell into a vortex 

and the world tumbled over and over

it spun

and she could walk on the sky,

the bushes,

the houses

suddenly

she began to fall again

she fell onto her feet

back in the forest

she was in the middle of nowhere nothing

she did not know what had happened to her

not of running away

not of the walks through the forest

not of the mirrors

not of the vortex

not of walking on the sky, the bushes, the houses

she only had one memory

of her old home

and the old floral dress she used to wear around the house

she'd close her eyes and forget the world.