White
For Ellie Hoovs' Wonderland Challenge - Day 20
These precious pearls
Hang around my neck
Like a thoughtful gift
One that would blind
My pure fragile eyes
With a radiant white shine
Strong enough
To exude the charm
Clever enough
To hide the harm
The power
Of your tongue
Yet those pearls
Are the product
Of your deception
The layered lies
Coated carefully
Into something
Cured beautifully
Pulled tight
Across my throat
Until I gasp
For the slipping air
Beneath your trap
I snap the string
Your pearls scatter
No longer haunted
The illusions shatter
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Ellie's Wonderland Challenge Prompt - Day 20
About the Creator
Alyssa Musso
A scientist by trade, but a creative at heart. One novel in progress with too many other ideas taking up space in my head. Some of those ideas end up here.
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Comments (9)
This is beautiful and feels highly symbolic.
wow! The purls strangling bit was amazing! I am so glad this ended with you breaking that strand!
Turning something so pretty into something so sinister! Marvelously done! The snapping of the string was so satisfying!
This was so gorgeous! The tension and build ups to releases here are so, so good.
Amazing
Wow, Alyssa, this was very powerful. The use of pearls in this is brilliant.
The last four lines really brought it home. 👏
my mind is a sewer! anyway, that aside there was a masterful, gradual shift from the beauty and elegance of pearls to the savage and dirty tainting of some beautiful used to mask a deception! because thats what deceit, betrayal and broken trust does! ruins the beauty with the ugly! powerful writing, Alyssa! so much so that I actually gasped at the choking line!
I love the pearl metaphor here...deception concealed by beauty. Very well done!