A Unicorn's Heart Is Worth More Than The Gold In The Box

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A frontier of pink and yellow,
A battlefield of cotton candy
One doesn’t normally see
The sunrise as a warning
She’ll tiptoe into your sheets
On hooves of white gold
My heart always told me,
She was the eye of the storm
Her expression was glazed with milk,
And her breast was soft as feathers
I often lay there in the blizzard
As if she were my own mother
One day she led me to the room in the corner
Dust gathered, and doors locked,
I watched as she trotted the crystal corridor
Inside there were boxes, tied with ribbons of straw
It seemed to be gold, but inside, there was nothing at all
A child I was, gasping with glee
I gave her a quick embrace,
A kiss on the cheek
She smiled, as animals do, with a glint in her eye
I flew into the room without a goodbye
Tearing open the gifts was a short-lived occasion
I spun around to see the snow quickly rising
It roared and it ripped and it banged and it swore
I ran to the windows to see her disappearing
She was melting
She was fighting
She was leaving
She was gone
She was no more than an echo
Of the soft sugar on my tongue
An imprint on my pillow
A tear stain on my cheek
She was gone in a moment,
The dream is over

I am awake.

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  1. Katherine RenAugust 22, 2018 at 10:16 AM

    AHHH! LILI I LOVE THIS!! Strikes a bit personal for the both of us, no? With the constant "waking up from a fantasy that is far more beautiful than reality", and the bittersweet feeling of growing up. Ignorance is bliss. Ah, if only we could all stay "asleep" forever.

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