Hallways

Head full of winnings,
heart full of gain,
I knew nothing of Sodom,
I knew nothing of pain;
and so I took a step in
and then knew nothing more,
for then I saw a hall
I had not seen before.
And there stood, with
both feet on the floor,
a long line of statues,
ah but there is more!
As I walked among the statues
at a drawling pace,
I noticed that all of them
were missing half of their face.
There they all stood,
all there in a line,
facing their half-faces
straight at mine.
A step More I took
and I incredulously found
an enormous stack of papers were bound
to my back, so many papers
I feared I might crack
from all of the weight,
but I continued to walk
in a slow, unsteady gait.
I needed to keep searching,
I needed to find some place
where I was safe, some place
that was mine.
I took a step further
and felt impending doom
as I came across the place
where I thought I'd find my room.
But there was no doorknob
on the wall, and there
was no door there at all.
and I knew then I was stuck,
stuck in my wretched hall!
A voice approached me from my left,
and soon came another.
I yelled for my friends,
I screamed for my mother,
but these voices stopped me,
they had considerable knack
at pulling me from the present,
at yanking me back to the past.
My friends tried to help me,
but I was only to find
that their words were wasted on me,
and that they couldn't hear mine.
I'm stuck and I'm trapped now,
and I know not what to do.
I'm locked in my hallway,
are you locked in yours too?