Dear My Doll

I used to have a beautiful twin
She didn’t have no name
No wit nor taste yet caused me so
To hide mine own in shame

T’was her face, her defective face
Phantasmagorical charms
Pious smile, empty smile
A face one wished no harm

Deep brown tresses with sunlight hints
Dwarfed my mousy rags
Lace-trimmed ribbons, china face
She made me seem a hag!

Eyes of painted Neapolitan seas
While mine were bruise-like blue
Five whole years they gripped me
Gently dying, I had no clue

Why did you speak not,
Why did you hide?
Couldn’t you see I was so very alone
Without you always by my side

Never moving, forever unblinking
She stared away her dainty life
Trapped within a silent cage
Indifferent to our joy and strife

Why did you speak not,
Why did you hide?
Couldn’t you see I was so very alone
Without you always by my side

The years have been so harsh to her
Eroding too swiftly to mourn
Like a black rose wilting, petal by petal
In a mere half decade she’d gone.

Why did you speak not,
Why did you hide?
Couldn’t you see I was so very alone
Without you always by my side

And in the end I never said
My whys and sorrys and goodbyes
As I near my own end to the brim with regrets
The most, that I didn’t smile and say –

Thank you, my dear doll.

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