not everything is what it seems to be.

vanity
from Old French vanité, from Latin vānitās emptiness , from vānus empty

1) the state or quality of being vain; excessive pride or conceit
2) ostentation occasioned by ambition or pride
3) an instance of being vain or something about which one is vain
4) the state or quality of being valueless, futile, or unreal
5) something that is worthless or useless

vanity [bag]
a woman's small bag or hand case used to carry cosmetics, etc View table of contents...

Submitted: Mar 22, 2008    Reads: 31    Comments: 0    Likes: 1   

she sometimes dreams
of salvation.
and dreams
give her
self-deception,
delusion she seeks
in her desperate struggle
against the inevitable
pleas
she pleas
by no means.

the sweet drops of saliva

melt the fierce heat.

dissolubility of our reality

consumes and engrosses her,

unites and dismembers her,

ignoring sincerity,

frankness, integrity

fading and crushing

in familiarity -

fear entangles reason and sanity,

losing the passion

in her frayed vanity*

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