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Gingerbread Walls

by  Jojovits1

Posted: Sunday, February 28, 2021
Word Count: 42
Summary: Well this was much, much harder than I thought!




Her walls were gingerbread.
Soft crumbs of pride
and powdered sugar.
Pretty and fragile.

And all invited inside
found sweetness and
treachory in her
sticky embrace.

They yearned escape
by moonlit, pebble paths
instead their eyes clouded
with dust and breadcrumbs.