A/N: Here's a poem I penned while I was supposed to be writing a free verse for the poetry contest guilty blush. I had just read a rather depressing fan fiction in which Bunny's identities as Sailor Moon and Princess Serenity weren't as much a blessing as a curse. So I tried walking in Bunny's boots for a while...
Locks of Gold
Streamers of gold whip about in the wind,
winding around her swan's neck like twin nooses.
Inescapable; she chops them, but they just grow back
like stubborn rose vines
that bite into her tender psyche with thirsty thorns.
Pearls glint against her milky skin
and roll in molten streams down her pallid face.
She is a pearl, imprisoned within her mother,
born only to be set in gold and glisten on a string of teardrops.
Small she is, dainty, fragile like a flower petal;
They pick her to jam her into choking crystal vases
and crush her petals to inhale the fragrant perfume.
Then they plant her again –
she struggles to emerge from her shell
and embrace the world around her –
and then they pluck her up again, trailing roots,
planting her to blossom in foreign soil,
fertilized by Cynthia's ashes.
Branded by her puissance, her diadem is her Boulder.
Reincarnated in an Ixion state of being,
spun from one heartache to another,
she is chained to her fate by locks of gold.
A/N:A few cliff notes that might make the poem more meaningful:
1.) The gold streamers refer to Bunny's hair. Remember in manga #2 when it just kept growing? You have to understand that the gold streamers were her hair to understand the poem.
2.) Cynthia was another name for Artemis, the goddess of the moon. Artemis was also known by the name Diana.
3.) In Greek mythology, the king Sisyphus warned the father of a maiden that Zeus had carried off his daughter. Zeus punished Sisyphus by having to try to roll a Boulder uphill that would always roll back on him for an eternity in the underworld.
4.) The goddess Hera punished Ixion for insulting her by binding her to a wheel that spins endlessly.
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