The decor is gold filigree,
inset with diamonds, sapphires, jewels of a thousand worlds.
Bars of pure marble act as the walls.
But the cage is still just as inescapable as its steel brother,
and every bit as cold.
writer, book reviewer, daydreamer
The decor is gold filigree,
inset with diamonds, sapphires, jewels of a thousand worlds.
Bars of pure marble act as the walls.
But the cage is still just as inescapable as its steel brother,
and every bit as cold.
Is it a diamond you seek?
Cut and shaped with princess blood,
adding to the value?
Pure, elegant, transparent.
Polished to perfection, mirroring
what you wish to see?
Should I congratulate myself for thinking
you do not care for those
neatly fractured inside, tarnished, imperfect,
but diamonds none the less?
You never wanted to see the wild flowers.
Only those cultivated over years
by expert growers and displayed by florists
to show their most enticing features.
But look how much life
those wild flowers bring.
That’s what I’d like to say, yet it’s too late.
Your eyes have turned to stone.
Yours is the shaded bench placed beside the stream where tired walkers rest their feet whilst watching the ducks at play.
Yours is the mansion with the ivy climbing high to the window of the first floor bedroom, where its creeping tendrils lightly finger the latch.
Yours is the garden that is home to upright stones marked with old names, beaten down by wind and rain to become unreadable.
And yours is the oak tree that has been growing for a thousand years, whose roots intertwine with the forgotten skulls in the invisible pit.
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