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Castle Rock
With the conch in my hand
 I walked up the way
 The way I thought would be the end
 
 The end of this nonsense
 They call savages
 We've all lost our marbles
 
 But what marbles
 I've certainly lost mine
 At least without my glasses
 
 Being led like a dog
 I went up the hill
 Up to Castle Rock
 
 Who goes there 
 Called the savage
 
 I imagined us screaming
 Little Pig, Little Pig
 Let me in
 I chuckled to myself
 
 Little did I know
 How bad it would go
 Little did I know
 How fast his marbles would go
 Little did I know
 It would be my time to go
 
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 What a beautiful sight
 Little did I know it would be my last
 
 It came so sudden
 All a blur
 I never saw it coming
 Never thought they could truly go savage
 Never thought they would choose murder
 
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 Why have you betrayed me
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 One if your rocks killed me
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 One of your rocks took me away
 
 The end of innocence
 As Ralph would soon say
 Was lost in us
 
 We all did things
 We don't care to repeat
 Things that took us away
 
 Lost in savagery 
 Lost in irrationality
 Lost in paranoia
 Lost in fear
 Lost is civilization
 
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 How could you do this
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 You were once so fun
 Once so innocent
 
 I see it now
 Why it had to be
 Hangman's horror came upon him
 He knows what he has done
 What he has become
 
 Does he care
 No
 
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 I once believed
 Intelligence trumped savagery
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 I never saw it coming
 Never could see
 They took away intelligence
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 All is lost
 I am lost
 Castle Rock, oh Castle Rock
 Why me
 Just fair haired Piggy
 
I made this for a Lord of the Flies assignment in my English class. My teacher loved it so much and said I should publish it. So, here it is, my first submitted piece.