stymied

cooked
stalled in halls of
fallen called
to lull and crawl
past rust and dusted pasted waste.

Once upon a time,
in a city called
Forever
lived a contrived being
made perfect
then tested
who was
you.
And although you
fried when tossed in a pan full of grease
or
rusted when sent to the bottom of the deep blue see-
YOU MADE IT AWAKE AGAIN!
it was all just a dream

stymied:any situation in which one is obstructed or frustrated