When I was young
I could get away with
Skinned knees and
Hurt feelings

I changed and aged
Felt my first kiss
Betrayed by hypocrisy
I shook it off

Feelings flowed and ebbed
As my second kiss was
Slaughtered by lust.
I felt my heart shatter.

Reassembled and guarded
Never thought
I would find another
But another found me.

Left my safety to the siren's call
The third kiss, one so true
Eclipsed by doubt.
My world collapsed.

Returned from oblivion's gateway
Numbers 4 and 5
Only tapestries
I shared my pain.

Tempered, I exist now
The enigmatic 6th I see
A curiosity,
How will you kill me?

This is my fate
Until my book's close
To live the life
Of a fragile glass rose.

My heart lies somewhere
Between perfection and dust.
My soul is a sight to behold,
But will shatter at the blink of an eye.

 
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