Notes Part 1: This piece takes place during the Season 5 finale.
Notes Part 2: Smallville belongs to DC and the CW. Please send comments to dante0220@yahoo.com .


For years, I’ve sat
In place fixed
A mouse stalked by cats
A life I’ve missed

In circles I wander
Under glass
Slowly ahead I blunder
No warmth by me wafts

Nearly two years ago
I planned a bold move
Love I had to know
To find that groove

From the gloom
Of Father’s domain
I sought sanctuary
For love, my heart had room
Happiness to me came
When Lana loved me dear’y

Alas, forces conspired
Not wanting my happiness
Fatal bullets, they fired
My dreams, they banished

On a summer’s night most bleak
The conspirators struck
At my moment most weak
Hope from me plucked

I cannot forget the sight
The shrill screams and sounds
Draped in fire’s light
Chorused by fear world round

In that horrid place
Stuck between two destinies
My worst nightmare, I faced
My hopes ceased

A former friend taunted me
Only Zod knew why
Of his need
To make my love die

A defense I waged
Jor-El’s dagger gave me aid
But killed Brainiac in my rage
On Zod, no attempt was made

Zod laughed
“So weak you are now.”
A worse fate he crafted
My hopes he cowed

With hate for my house, he burned
To the Phantom Zone I was sent
No escape I can discern
From this jail most bent

My prison’s perfect
My torture most painful
As he at my heart peck
In manner disdainful

I stand behind a glass sheet
Stuck like a fly in place
Alone but with others I don’t wish to meet
In that foul space

At my feet
Dark obsidian does grace
On which I step
But leave not a trace

Outside everyone screams
Their hearts ache
Society, Brainiac’s virus creams
Smothering it in Chaos’ cape

That insight
That catch
Strained me tight
But by the next level it was overmatched

I turned toward the side
My heart turned cold
I beat on the glass and cried
As I played a helpless role

On top of the outer world
Lana danced with another
Together she and Zod twirled
Their lips did each other cover

Forced I was to watch
This usurping of my place
Pained it my heart much
In that prison space

But I’ll find a way
To turn the curse for me
To give myself Hope’s ray
And turn just a bit her key

While Lana isn’t here
Her inspiration lives
Yes for her I do fear
But my love for her me drives

I make myself remember
That uplifting sign
Despair I thus curb
My spirit thus flies

One day a way out
I will find from glass and mist
Seeking refuge from doubt
Recovering what I miss

Until then I watch
Those worlds pass by
The dancers by me march
Usurped is that world of mine.
 

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