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Fragile~ By Rie Sheridan Rose

9/11/2013

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Be gentle when you
speak to her.
She has no words
to tell you the pain
she feels.
Her soul is as
brittle as glass--
untempered by time.
Somewhere along
the way to where
she is now,
she lost the map
to where she wanted
to go.
The dreams she dreamed
shattered into shards,
piercing her panache…
breaking her belief
in what she could be.
She fell through the world--
Alice into a twisted Wonderland
where the Rabbit had teeth.
Climbing back out
took all her strength.
She is a shell around
heartbreak.
A whisper could
crush her.
She’s fragile
like that.


Author Bio:
Rie Sheridan Rose is the author of five chapbooks of poetry. Her poems have been published in Mythic Circle, Dreams of Decadence, Abandoned Towers, and online in Electric Wine, Abyss & Apex, and Penumbra. She won the National Space Society of North Texas Poetry Contest in 2011, and made Honorable Mention in the 2012 contest. She has also been published in the Boundless and Di-Verse-City Anthologies.
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