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My Broken doll

by Sam Roberts

"I am not young enough to know everything" – Oscar Wilde

My childhood was my innocence
Left static, rekindling my ignorance
Etched into a baby shaped soul, voiceless
And still.
Sitting in my nest and gluing broken bones
Swinging back and forth, underneath my wrinkles

I will decay over time, loose my mind
And attempt to iron out my childhood.


I found it, quite innocently
hidden in a box.
Concealed there for a long time
in secrecy,
With only insects for friends
who crawled over him.

Bruised but so numb
And frozen to the feeling of touch,
a finger would lay
and slip through his heart.

He sat in a pose
And I waited, quite kindly,
for him to swing into motion.
Rocking back and forth underneath his straw hat.
And carved quite beautifully,
with individual eyelashes that made him my own.

The shirt he was wearing was olive green, emerald perhaps?
And his feet were worn, soiled and filthy.
His cheeks splashed with an orange gleam.
And his hair, unravelled and purposely static.
Motionless, like his dreams.

People’s paws left marks on his skin,
faded and stroking his youth.
And with his hands cupped, he gave them to me
and when he fell, he fell straight through,
His china cutting my heart.

His hat blew off in the wind
And his eyelashes washed away in the rain.
But his eyes remained, focused on mine
And for the first time
he came alive,
and I saw his irregular blinking.

04/12/2003

Posted on 04/12/2003
Copyright © 2024 Sam Roberts

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Kara Hayostek on 04/12/03 at 03:29 AM

i always felt guilty when i put my dolls away. its like they are alive and no matter how dirty and yucky they are theyre still smiling with those eyes!

Posted by Maria Terezia Ferencz on 03/13/05 at 02:55 PM

I am really feeling this...love the words

Posted by Joan Serratelli on 03/21/09 at 01:28 PM

As a doll collector, I love this piece! Very vivid images enhance your well expressed story. Excellent work!

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