TOWERS

Once I lived alone in a tower of blacken metal, Secure in the knowledge that no assault could breech or attack could break my defenses...
I was the Creator and Master of the tower and many would view it from a distance and tell me they wished they lived in such a fine structure..
Alone... I would wander it's dark halls and stand on it's battlements...
In the distance I would see others living in cottages and hovels and wonder at their openness and vulnerability....
"To live like that..." I would think and watch as attackers and disasters would scatter them and destroy their homes...
And then they would return and rebuild the same structures over again..
After an eon, I decided to have someone live in my tower with me...
Several times I searched and found others that I thought would be capable of living in my tower, but they found it either too confining or too complex or too different from living in a cottage or hovel...
Each new visitor to my tower damaged it... left scratches on formally mirror smooth marble floors and previously unused rooms in disarray... My tower was comfortable for me, but it frightened and confused others...
The last visitor to my tower had lived in a tower herself and found my tower suited her as well... It was not too difficult to move her tower near mine and join the two to form a grand castle...
For a time we were content and happy living in our castle... But then she decided to build a cottage inside it's walls and insist I live there with her...
To make her happy... Which was very important to me... I did..
The two of us lived in the cottage behind the castle walls.. As time pasted, I noticed the cottage slowly meld into the two towers, till we lived again in our towers but with a large common ground between them...
When I pointed this out to her, her view was that her tower was now the cottage and we should both live there... Again to make her happy, I did...
Without my upkeep my tower fell, leaving my half of the cottage open and exposed... 
At times attacks would come, but I fought them off...
These attacks strengthened me and I came to realize my tower had left me weak in certain ways... I no longer needed it... 
I told my visitor of this... I told her how to fight off attackers and to live without a tower.. She used this knowledge to build a stronger, larger tower to protect herself and me...
I refused to live there and wandered about outside, defending the now-useless castle... Till I found that most of the attacks I was defending against came from the tower!!... She was trying to drive me inside...
That was a long time ago... 
Now I live in a cottage by the sea...

for Me.