She's No Glass Doll

Moonlight falls down on the dark

 

there's a face there, with an ethereal glow

 

porcelain skin and fiber glass bones

 

cherry painted lips and wide brown eyes.

 

 

She's beautiful, she's gorgeous but the years have left a mark

 

 

in her silk dress her face is happy  but,

 

 

on the inside of her smooth carcass

 

 

a demon grows.

 

 

 

She was made with a velvet heart deep inside

 

stitched in so lovingly, so willingly divine

 

but with the years and the memories

 

her beautiful exterior shatters

 

like glass, they scatter on the floor

 

many slip out of the moonlight.

 

 

Things held close to her velvet heart fade

 

-memories, voices, laughter-

 

not today.

 

One brown eye cracked and broken

the other looks at the moonlight longingly.

She can't move so she'll take it all,

despite her looks, she's no glass doll.

Author's Note

It's kind of....well, yeah, there's a hidden meaning behind it, if you can guess, great, but I'm not posting it up here. ^^ What do you think? I love the last two lines <3.

Reviews

[Georgia Gypsy]

i get mutiple meanings from this..i love the last two lines as well..'she can't move so she'll take it all, despite her looks, she's no glass doll'...i'll email you with my other insights as to what else i got from this....don't want to help you're other readers out too much let them draw their own conclusions...
also i'm listening to 'quiet mind' by blue october as i read this,,,,so gives it more meaning in different ways..

[Voice11]

I love the last lines also! I can see something of a hint but I'll have to think on it..hmmmm...awesome write though! It got me thinking. =)

[Jemma]

I see this poem as very emotional.
The glass doll a symbol for a child.
And with the memories of a troubled past.
And a tourtured soul.
I see neglect or abuse.
From family or the people around them.
I don't know if that is the meaning.
But that is what I see.
Great write.
And I aswell loved the 2 last lines.

[Valerie Dean Belew]

Sounds like someone who has been hurt, but cannot change her situation, so she just endures it. Very sad, as I read this writing, but expressed very well, and the writing is very good. I have never been this person for very long; I always move, but that has its heartbreak as well. V

[...MysteryGirl...]

i like it..
And I think I even got the meaning..
Great write..

[Bud]

This is an Excellent piece. I can see multiple possible meanings. Each deep and thought provoking. This is a piece that has the power to leave the reader with much to think about. Sort of like a riddle within an Outstanding poem! Keep up the Excellent works of art, Aveira!

[V. Lucien Maier]

I dig the words but the formatting does not work here. The color changes and randomness would be an advantage in a piece where the words are not strong.
But this is no such piece that words are far stronger than you think and the formatting is taking away from them.
The piece itself it very good.
I love the vocabulary, and the slight attitude that runs through the piece is palpable. The is written with a practiced hand, you have a story to read?