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