She's Breakable
She’s breakable
as if she were fine china used for tea,
a cup one holds and sips from daintily.
Her arms are porcelain, for she’s a doll
She needs so much for one who is so small!
I‘d use MY limbs to shade you. I’m a tree
and solid. . . yet I’m liquid like the sea!
I’m durable, for I am standing tall,
while she’s a vine that crawls along your wall . . .
So delicate, your little chickadee.
She’s sapping you; she’ll never let you be.
Yet here stand I, prepared to give you all!
She’s fragile glass that you must not let fall.
She’s breakable.
For Joe Flach's contest: The Earl of Sandwich
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2010
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