Paper Beauty
She had a paper beauty that no one could bear to touch
They were scared what would happen if their
fingers made her smudge
The clean lines of her face and hair
Where all that kept her from despair
People kept their distance
And so her paper never wrinkled
But her eyes never twinkled
You can’t breathe life into paper
She was easy to admire
If you didn’t stare too long
Her blank eyes made them uneasy
And her smile was a little wrong
But she was a paper beauty
The greatest beauty that there was
Why mourn the paper beauty
For she can never die
To leave this world like that
She would have had to be alive