Glass Maiden
She's made of glass
A porcelain princess
with impeccable texture
She was smooth
round
warm to the touch
Many would often marvel
at the opalescent marble
that she was made of
Were afraid to touch too much
or not enough
Despite being perfectly polished
her glossy skin had been made thin
vulnerable
to the fissures and rifts
that ran along the length of her limbs
Normally, they would hide under her clothes
but her secrets had been disclosed
leaving her pain exposed
the presence of perfectly sculpted pearls
just below her eyes
She would be human if she chose
Her admirers were taken aback
by the cracks and crevices
which threatened the fairness
the most precious of fetishes
They can't let her crack
They can't let her die
She needs to be immortalized
so that these mortal eyes can fantasize
about everything that she is not
These cracks have them mortified
They polish
they pamper
they primp
reinforcing the notion
that she is special
One of a kind
One of a kind only reminds her
She's so different
Not a human made of flesh, bones and skin
A marble marvel
Maiden made of porcelain
fragile
easy to break
silently cracking
everytime they polish her
but of course she's beautiful
She's made of glass
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Posted Jun 17, 2018, 11:24 PM UTC