Love Poem: Sleeping Beauties
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Written by: Rosanna Tarsiero

Sleeping Beauties

We were
born equally
talented and tormented

Able 
to mirror people's
motives, thoughts,
ideas, hopes 
nobody
ever dared 
scouting 
behind our surfaces

Embalmed
inside a glass casket, frozen
we looked
alive to most 
and yet painfully
dormant

Many 
tried to awaken our
hearts enticed
by the reflection of their
selves we so 
aptly 
provided without
realizing it would
not
have been life to us

Till one
fateful 
day the resonance of our
coffins broke 
the Spell and we
fell - alive
and living - for one
another