Lackluster Poem by Robin Bennett

You found me alone-
on the sands of beige
in peridot waters
a white pearl-
you lifted me up
to harness
me to your rope
Blank time-
peeled at my layers
Shredding luster
as time tightened your grip

Cold as the waters-
from which I sprung
I snapped like the oyster
that created me
I belong to you now-
you keep me in the dark
until you-
adorn the string
that paralyzes me

I lost my beauty-
now faded and lonely
just a lackluster pebble
all strung out-
I sleeping next to a
shell from the sea
of my birth
she hauntingly-
whispers the sounds
of freedom to me
as I bow to disease
I am homesick-