Pearl

Why are you asking for

these iridescent spheres

that have rolled down my cheek?

Is it our joy you wish to

collect... for a trophy

on a choker strung tight

'round another lover's

arched and readied neck...?

Will you spear my lustre

and wear our very pain

like a stud through your ear

to show the indifference...

that you now long to feel?

It is you... in all of

Life's opalescent scenes

reflected in these tears.