What. Second person, Edward POV. I was scribbling this in the margins of my French exam. I regret nothing.


family portrait


you paint the perfect portrait

of the perfect family

framed in mahogany.

first, you see your daughter

ivory skin and ebony hair

and bigbrownchocolate eyes

she's p.r.a.c.t.i.c.a.l.l.y perfect

but perfect isn't enough

and she settles for almost.

(can you see that she's suffocating?)

and then your eyes travel upwards

to her mother, a china doll

an angel fallen from grace

she's your porcelain princess,

but you'll spend forever breaking her to p/i/e/c/e/s

one false move, one fake smile

c-r-a-c-k!

you've shattered her.

you're the thorn in her side

and she's a glass rose

but you're too selfish to let her go,

because you are the fallen angel who deserved to fall

copper/topaz/perfection/evil

but you complete their perfect family

so you just keeping smiling fake happy smiles

safe inside your mahogany frame.