Thanks to NEEKNERAJ of MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie for hosting this week’s photo challenge prompt.
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Enchanting child in slumber keep,
Red hair surrounds you as you sleep.
I wait for you to wake from your dreams,
No longer a porcelain doll preened.
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A wedding gown white lace so frothy,
Mother hoped your match was lofty.
That you’d found your life partner,
Your prince, your man, for life to start.
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But day by day you grew sad,
When pressed with his kisses ran.
Empty feeling inside you grew,
Like a butterfly away flew.
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Mischievous child, pain grew,
His fist at your face straight-on flew.
Hiding the bruises with powder,
Not even concealer shrouds.
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Pride vital to you, tiny doll,
Escaped; no one to catch your fall.
Fly in dreams with delicate wings,
Winter ends, it’s soon your spring.
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Gather your courage –call it off;
Don’t marry him, don’t be soft.
In front of the crowd, show each cut,
Let them see bruises, you must.
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So they know an abuser,
Isn’t good enough, he’s a loser.
He broke your velvet wings,
Your sanity held by strings.
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But it was too late even then,
The lake too close; so your end.
Now you float, butterfly who swims,
Eternity of light your win.
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We tried to save a doll of glass,
But on death she shattered, passed.
Down below the water’s dark depth,
She’s tranquil, free; although, she leapt.
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Mind too distorted, destroyed,
Lover’s hands threw her like a toy.
World tough; his madness changed them both,
In Heaven she smiles free to float.
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He mourns her death each day, each drink,
Pretty soon his rage him too sinks.
Accidents happen to the unaware,
She pulled him in, drowned his despair.
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