Russian Stacking Dolls

Life is not like

Russian stacking dolls.

I’ve tried to make it so --

to find a way that it all fits…

But I always get stuck.

Squeezing everything into these little compartments

one after another.

The colorful paint scratches off

as the pieces rub against eachother,

friction causing the facial features to blur

until you can bearly make out

the expressions.

Life is not like Russian stacking dolls…

It is something else entirely in fact.