look at you, the shattered glass portrait of
a girl
a girl that bled tears when they called her ugly
that shatters against a mirror in shards they call fat
and blistery
a mangled mass of zits and puss
a girl that looks upon her reflection, sadly
her mirror cannot reflect itself
I hold you, a glass portrait of shards that dig
into my skin
a mosaic of blood, stained-glass
rips apart my lips when I kiss you
pieces of your anguish embed into my mouth
gargling my words to blood-soaked glass
My cheeks, mangled masses of flesh
cling partly to the jaw
I look at you, letting my face draw the pointed ends
closer to my skin
My eyes are gouged from the shattered visage
and I cry the famed three words
clinging to them as flesh dangles from bone
eye sockets cannot portray the soul
in a perpetual motion, I throw my body against
the shattered glass portrait of
a girl
a girl that bleeds my tears when I call her beautiful
and masterly
because my mirror cannot reflect itself
Author notes
A darker sort than I've been writing lately, but I put a focus on integrating form, sound, and playing with the double meanings of each of those to help along the point of the poem itself.
A contest entry
- Darkest of the Darklings by whipped rose.
390 points, ended May 16, 2007, 17 entries
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Comments
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a good dark piece that twists and turns inside hope's smiles and frowns i thought, and leads to a positive ending of sorts. i would say perhaps think of using punctuation a little more?

