Touch Something Golden

touch something golden
just to find out it’s just a gilded old thing
that everyone in the whole world has gotten a piece of
it was just put together with artificial stuffs
and painted in gold leaf
it makes your heart flutter when you see it
and it was so cheap and easy and you need it
you bought it
brought it home and worshiped it
took tremendous care of it
just to watch the gold leaf peel away
showing the roughness and bitterness of yesterday
and now all you got is it laying in shambles in your hand
the memory of the gold glinting
as you sweep the pieces into your hand and put them in your pocket
where the little shards poke and you forever.
love