If you stop and listen for a moment,
maybe you’d hear her silent cries
pleading with you or someone
- anyone at all -
to please pick her up, her little body
limp with sadness, crumpled in the corner,
having been discarded,
then forgotten.

She’s so sorry now that she hasn’t been
the perfect doll,
that she had sulked before when you’d
taken her out so very often to play –
she’d thought she’d collapse from wear
and tear -
but she didn’t.

And she now remembers all the
happy times and all the fun she had;
now is she sad, now does she regret
as she lies limp and crumpled
in the corner where she’d ended up,
waiting and pleading for someone –
anyone – to please pick her up.

amazingly beautiful ((myanimalc)) poignant

lovingly finds a beautiful
well loved friend
she's soft and you can
tell that she has seen
a lot of joy
brushing her hair back
out of her eyes
here little one
sit here on the shelf
in the family room
where we all come to play
you should be part of
the family again
as carefully she finds
a new place where
all the laughter sounds
she is a delight
overlooking all the
fun once more
a participant
and i could swear
her smile is a little
happier
today

To the both of you.

sadly beautiful myanimalcracker

H- what a wonderful, caring response to offer