GODDESS

Dyed your hair
and painted your face,
created you
for their image:
a false idol
in human flesh.
The woman
was worth
far more than
their charms,
but left to crumble
like the forgotten marble
her star was forged in.
Creatures as these
are never meant
to suffer
such human coil long:
Painted and died
as one
of their idols.

05/16/04