Velveteen

[catching_tigers]

Some days, I wonder if I'm even real
Missed
Loved
Or just a plaything
Like any other

My mind in peices
Grasping at worn cloth and
Sparse horse hairs
Sawdust leaking from
Ripped seams

Left and forgotten
Burned from necessity
Real as the twitching whiskers
Or just something left on the shelf
Just Velveteen

Comments

[onesan_gekkouko]

Mmm, lovely poem tiger. I love the story you based it off of.

[catching_tigers]

its a favourite, actually :)

[ibonedthepope]

WHOA WHOA, HOLD UP, you wrote that?!

[catching_tigers]

yes, of course
no need to shout... :\

[ibonedthepope]

holy crap. it's pretty flippin SW33T ^_^

[aerin75]

at least you're velveteen not burlap

[catching_tigers]

cause id make people miserable if i were burlap... id whine about being itchy

[aerin75]

nah, people don't want to be around burlap bunnies

[nouveau_jour]

I used to have a velveteen rabbit.
Only when we sat on the porch,
it was magical there,
jealousy and resentment floated away
in plumes of smoke
and exhalations
and sighs on fingers full of mistakes.

I know what its like to be leaking all over the place,
sometimes I think we leaked all over one another -

sometimes I could only bear to look at you when I was half drunk
if you weren't laughing
because I needed your smile to fuel my own

and I'm sorry that I was ever that broken in front of any one

[catching_tigers]

pfft. nobody has made me cry in ages *hugs tight*

[nouveau_jour]

hugs* sorry didn't mean to make you cry.

[catching_tigers]

ah, shit happens :)