You are a Pebble

The value of loving a gem stone heart.

You are a pebble
washed over by others shallow thoughts
as shiny and as beautiful
as any precious gem stone setting
upon top of the finest gold ring
on any hand worthy of beauty 

Your brilliant hue
crys crystal blue persuasion
sacred with mascara black veins
cutting through as one
in jagged ramadan twists
around sex appeal turns 

The selfish tries to steel your treasure
leave you to dry up in a broken sun
taking you from your loving home 
to lock you away in a private three lock box
for their late night polishings viewed by one  
high on their elevated shoes

Some wish to teach you to fly
with smiles for the heavens 
under their wings shadowing all your bling 
hoping to wear you around their neck 
like a trophy claiming all your glory 
with a clasp of broken luck

Me  oh, I want to adore your glistening kiss
crushing the velvet blackening my heart
dive in the depths of your muse
poetically expending my unwritten universe
within me to shimmer crimson poetry  
cheering you on to greater awareness  
brighten by your silhouette bathing my desire 

Reviews

[barleygirl]

As a woman fortunate enuf to be single, good-looking, active, etc. . . men often underestimate me by seeing the outer shell or wanting me as a decoration. You express how this goes in a relatable way using interesting & original imagery to show instead of tell. My only drawback in reading this is that you seem to spend more time on how a pebble might be used in shallow ways, so I was left wanting a little bit more about how a pebble could be honored as if a gem. I love the pebble/gem juxtaposition & it could've been used a little more thru-out the poem (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Matthew]

If the pebble isnt missed used in the other verses then the last verse which Is me, how I feel for a pebble and the beauty that I see in the inner parts of the pebble. The last verse would be just another verse of kind words.