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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!

 

Pinterest: @ymichelle1write

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