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Button Eyes
April 4, 2015
I once met a girl with buttons for eyes.
Her mouth was sewn in a crooked red grin
To match her crooked red eyes.
Red, red, red, like an angry shout.
Her yarn hair looked like spaghetti
In all that red.
Her shiny white shoes pinched her toes,
Her tiny, creamy, porcelain toes.
White, white, white, like an innocent cry.
The only color that didn't fit
Was the faded navy of her doll-eyes.
They should've given her away.
And when I blinked, my eyes became hers,
Buttons for buttons,
And she was me.
© Mary P., Norfolk, VA
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