The Heart Shaped Locket Poem by Lexy Sogl

They all secretly wonder
Why she holds it with such panic
Why she’ll never let anyone see

The rust so harmlessly exposed
Like the bare skin of a baby

The chain- the purest of silver
supposedly
the kindness of the world
hung around her neck

They never did know
That in truth
what she was holding

was where
her bad dreams
her lost faith
and
her weakness
was kept

A simple heart shaped locket
The family burden
Right there on her chest
Taunting her
As it sways back and forth

The need
The obsession
The fixation
With precision

Controlled her

Back and forth
it swayed
trapping her
In her fervent mind