China Doll

• Artist: Cissia
• Description: A poem about how love can do many different things to us-- hurt us, exploit us, nurture us, and nourish us.
• Date: 07/16/2008
• Tags: love good doll china heart

Love is a china doll
It is fragile
One false move, and it is shattered
with shards, sharp and jutting, embedded into skin
Slowly, slowly bleed.

Love is a china doll
Guarded, placed upon the highest shelf
A prize to show off, a trophy to
flaunt in front of those who have lost
Pretty to the eye, cold to the touch.

Love is a china doll
Beauty in the eyes of a child
Hungry for lace and trimming and
a secret glade in which to play
Sparkle fades, but pure white skin
hugged against a longing chest,
Is Precious. Porcelain.

Comments

[Casca 7]

that's really sad. i hope you really don't see life so cold and distant as your poem makes it seem. but though i don't agree with you, i must say you write well so i'll give you a good score.