Best Poems Written by La Wi

Gold

Silence is golden, they say.
They don't tell you that gold is not a bubble but a shatterproof cage:
        a prison sanctuary for fragile birds.
They don't tell you that gold is a burden to be carried, always:
        as impenetrable from within as from the outside.
They don't tell you that gold is a glorified fun house mirror:
        distorting every action to perfection.
They don't tell you that gold is a broken walkie-talkie:
        a one-way filter for words.
They don't tell you that gold is a mask:
        so that where there is a soul in need of consolation
        there appears only intricately curved metal:
        the mesmerizing, deflective, flawless, and thoroughly non-human gold
        that you yourself have wrought.

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