In what context? Usually, staples hold things (like sheets of paper) together, and they aren't used to close something. Something "nailed shut" would make sense.
I won't tell you it's not okay, because you seem to be using it as a metaphor, and there's a lot of leeway in how you can use metaphors. But it doesn't fit an image that I know. You can say someone has closed a chapter (if you mean a relationship) or shut someone out (if you mean not wanting to interact with other people).
Why don't you write your full sentence, or even your paragraph, a
ok its not my sentence its from a lyric of course its a metaphor whats wrong? HERE'S THE LINES..
Section off myself Put a wall up/What the **** have I done Keep the dog at bay Survive by saving me! Values and the game Not a ****-up - Not a part of your lie I am one, I am all - I'm above and beyond!
Stapled shut, inside an outside world and I'm Sealed in tight, bizarre but right at home Claustrophobic, closing in and I'm Catostrophic, not again I'm smeared across the page, and doused in gasoline I wear you like a stain, yet I'm the one who's obscene Catch me upon all your sordid little insurrectio
Song lyrics, like other forms of poetry, take all kinds of liberties with common usage of language.
I don't know why you say say "of course it's a metaphor" as if I should have known better when your original post simply asked if you could use it, without any context at all, and I had to ask to get your meaning.
If you said "I'm stapled shut" and expected people to know that yo