PORCELAIN DOLLS
michelle yeboah
Her skin is glass.
It stings like the biting air after a storm
Her fragile bones
are home to fear
and it
won’t.
go.
away.
​
She is familiar with this ache
The kind of pain that tells you
her paper heart has been torn before.
​
“What is love?” She wonders.
She has never tasted that kind of sugar.
​
But then He comes around.
The sugar is on her lips, in her hair
Now she knows what it feels like
to
love.
​
But all of a sudden,
She’s become drunk on praise,
she flies too close to the sun,
and her porcelain wings shatter.
​
He discards her broken pieces.
Michelle Yeboah is a student from the US who loves writing, art, and music. She is currently writing a few novels that she hopes to publish. Her dream career is to be an engineer, but she's so excited to further her passion for poetry!
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