Cordelia

 

Cordelia


Untouched as a blank piece

of parchment.

Delicate as a single white rose

Whispy and fleeting, like the

Angelic light in the faraway meadows.

Beautiful, simply timeless as one single

Line of prose.


Hiding shyly behind full doe eyes.

Giggles like a bubbling brook, golden,

Pale and almost translucent hairs rippling

Back from an alabaster brow.


Soft and smooth was her carapace,

From under which delicate bones

were revealed.

All this she was, but before death

She knelt, for as tbe saying goes,

beautiful things never last and all

Good things must come to pass.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

inspired by a line from the book Anne of Green Gables