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Glass Dolls

Glass Dolls

Glass dolls in glass houses. 
Glass dolls with glass douses
Of reality, don’t they know?
That the girl who lives in fantasy 
Still sees a rainbow?
And all the poems seem so hollow now-
Because the light inside her is almost out. 

Because of the existence of
Glass dolls in glass houses
Dosed with reality, but they are so
Hollow now. 
I will NOT be like them. 
No, not twisted and molded, not me. 
Not my hope slipping through
The cracks of reality. 
But my brain is so hollow 
And Death is like a swallow
Fluttering around in its little nest that is me. 
Through my brain, through *my*
Reality. 

Does anyone care? I ponder with these thoughts.
No, surely not. 
Because if anyone knew that me and Death are still friends, 
That I’d play cards at his table 
Until the bitter end, surely *that*
Would disturb them. And so I am quiet, 
Day after day. Because at night my brain shatters
Deep 
Against the duvet.

Copyright © Sylvia Lupien

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