Porcelain Reminders

Porcelain doll with tiny pink ribbons
Clutched in the hand of an innocent girl
One piece of love she has with her
A shimmer of light in this darkened world.

Parents both too busy to notice her
This little diamond who lives in their lives
Too busy with parties, meeting with work
To see that in life she merely shivers and hides

The real world is too much for her fragile heart
She doesn't understand all of it's ways
So she holds her porcelain doll closer
And silence consumes her monotonous days

Years go by and this young girl grows up
Her emerald eyes sparking with wildfire
The doll she once carried is now just a symbol
Of a life she's risen above so much higher

And she decides to take this fragment of childhood
Throwing it to the ground shattering as glass
All glimmers into her life as a little girl
Are now pieces on the floor, shards of her past

She writes a letter of all she wants to become
All she wasn't when fear held a tighter grip
As the words flow onto the clean white paper
Twilight approaches and away time slips.