Spidery Bitch

On display to the world

Tough

Proud

A symbol of the past

Of my past

Unmoving and rigid

Yet soft in presence

You see me and

what do you

see?

Faded bronze

A woman on a pedestal

A subject for photographs

and straying hands

My skin riddled

with golden patches

Ghosts of touch

Proof of human existence

Near me I see

A dog with its golden nose

Glistening a beacon in the sun

Testimony of love

From the public

My breasts glimmer just as bright

Yet I feel no sun

Light emanating

My eyes stuck frozen away

I cannot bear the vision

Cannot take intensity

I am faded bronzes and withered coppers

Yet a golden sun

Radiates from my chest

My heart may be a nuclear reactor

Trapped in its cage of bone

Brighter and brighter

With every caress

Hotter and hotter

All the eyes

Not to who I am

Not to my dedications

Nor my soul

But to my golden vitiligo

Hands that will never cradle my face

Till my blush turns aglow

Will never take my hands

Till they’re polished to shine

My accomplishments darkened to nil

My identity swept undo