The Rumours Of Highhill Castle Poem by Wenjun Liu

Have you heard the rumours of Castle Highhill?
Never should a girl dwell alone
In that lonely castle on Highhill ground.

Was the wind singing an unworldly song?
Or the unworldly feigning the weepings of gusts around?
Pervading the air with a bluish shimmer,
Beside my ear, I heard that faraway whisper.
What's that sadness having me surround?
I shivered and uttered not a sound.

A thousand years it took me back,
Abandoned me upon a heather-dotted hill.
Woke me from a dream bleak and pale,
Only to cast me into one bleaker still.
Not even the stars gave a wink,
The wildest wind silenced in a blink.

Have you heard the rumours of Castle Highhill?
Never should a girl dwell alone
In that lonely castle on Highhill ground.

Years later, and I still knew not
Was that night a dream stealing the colors of real,
Or the reality donning Morpheus's veil?