Hardwood

poetry by lizzy
01 June 2002

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Is this all you are--

 
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A blankly smiling, dull-eyed china doll?

 
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Am I only a thoughtless child to you?

 
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What if this "thoughtless child" played with her new toy?

 
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She isn't very graceful yet, you know.

 
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If she should drop you onto the hardwood of her bedroom floor,

 
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would you live?

 
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Would you crack at that heavily concealed seam,

 
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broken but fixable?

 
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Or would you entire fragile being shatter

 
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into pieces for the toddler to put into her mouth?

 
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Would that help the world?

 
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