the careful way she smiles
with her glass teeth and
porcelain face fragile and
breakable scared to walk to
breathe to speak she would
shatter if she moved
glass blown eyes forged in
fear glazed with insecurity
chips in her china hands
she has made herself a
doll body she hates she hates
she hates this herself her
but it is too late if
she opens her mouth to
speak her lips will break
and fall away
Oh.
ReplyDeleteI can see her.
Your imagery and metaphor is painfully real.