Weight of a Dress

For a friend

This looming fabric shades

Diming light around you

Covering up the flames

Smothering hopes and dreams

Brought to your knees

Buy dress so heavy

 

You swim in cloth

Clawing for your breath

Brought down by threads

Woven for a night

Not one your own

Drowning over silken apparel

 

To hear many say

Do not fret over

Single night of many

Yet trepidation sinks in

Sewing you to dress

More than it should

 

Gravity of a presentation

To woman in white

Not guest so true

Looks not a concern

Worrying over past form

Yet a beauty today

 

Thread it not lead

Cloth is not sloth

Silk not your ilk

Dress far from mess

You’re far more than

Weight of that dress

Reviews

[Aramey]

Absolutely wonderful, and love how you wrap it all up in the ending. Congratulations on an excellent fusion of relevance, talent, and compassion :)