Promising Laughter

Secrets dangling from her soul
opening doors to crypts and castles.
Her dreams sheltering from her fears,
kept behind shudders
that she never opened.

Ballerina dancing to a social ballet
insides dying from famine of passions,
which made her heart anorexic
in hopes and desires.

Sitting after her latest performance
at the doorstep of unfulfilled wishes,
unable to step inside
because it housed a world
filled with gems
thought taboo.

Struggling to avoid death
so eating at her insides,
tired from being a trophy
and not a life with heart and feelings.

She'll kill the night
with residence in lament's chambers,
one footstep away
from a sunrise where love would shine,
too much the prisoner
of her created cell
for fleeing to gardens
promising laughter
beyond her daily hell.