Life Beneath The Words At Play

Shining brighter then affordability

Penny, penny, penny.

Money, cash, coins, and gold.

Diamonds, silver, and rings.

Emerald eyes and a glitzing necklace.

Encrusted swarovski crystal bracelet.

Ruby sweat and tears to fill your emptiest desires.

Crying tears of sapphire catching every drop into a pocket with nothing but dust.

Pearly gates cost more than troubles and toil.

Wounds full of topaz because you couldn't afford to heal the cuts you got.

You can't lose time when all you can do is work to pay up for the precious stones that adorne you from head to toe.

Emerging from your skin, you can see you're growing opal.

Shimmering in the moonlight when the light hits you right.

Penny for a rock. Money for your thoughts. A single coin for your heart. Golden words to buy your mind now that it's full of diamonds.

You afforded anything because you sold everything just to become priceless in your eyes, but everyone else wants to steal from you, and the price starts to plummet.

You're not worth the same as when you started buying the things.

You're no longer unaffordable. You're an average priced item that they can all pay, but it makes you too common, so they all lose interest anyway.

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This poem is inspired by diamonds. They are made expensive even if their common because it sells and makes them extravagant if they make them out as something rare and something every girl needs. They didn't become popular until they were advertised as something we needed. Then, if it were not seen as rare and instead common and it is no longer what people need, they plummet in prices and lose their sparkle. Some people lie, and to cover up the lie, they make another and then another, and it becomes such a common occurrence that people lose interest and your trust. Maybe that's not what you interpreted, though, so feel free to comment what you think.