China Doll

1st generation

China doll dreams
Patterned
Hand-crafted
Love poured over porcelain
A moment of today's innocent reality
So that tomorrow may remember an innocent time
So sweet

3rd generation

China doll dreams
Beautiful
Fragile
Grace and elegance
The look, the design
All speaking of another time
Perfectly curled and styled hair
A dress made to tell a perfect story
Few hear and even fewer sit perfectly still to listen

5th generation

China doll dreams
Broken
Fragmented
Scattered over space and time
The loss, the pain of the cuts
Only the remembrance of her standing there
Pieces of hair fuzz floats there in the sun
Scraps of fabric show up here and there
One left to clean up, as many watch

7th generation

China doll dreams
Forgotten
Myth and legend
Only a whisper of fantasies
Chosen stories passed to disbelieving children
They simply turn away
And let it all fade away
Soflty away
away