If you were metal <br />You would be copper. <br />Shiny and malleable <br />And made into useful things <br />Like pots and pans <br />And fish shaped molds <br />That hang on kitchen walls <br /> <br />If I was metal <br />I would be gold <br />Dirty gold long forgotten at the bottom of a jewelry box <br />A necklace you took for a noose <br />I am unrealized gold <br />I lay waiting <br />for someone to polished me up then <br />they would have something <br /> <br />And she? <br />She is silver <br />Silver that could have been a sterling fork used at fancy dinner parties <br />Instead <br />She is cheap <br />Maybe a ring or bracelet sold at a flea market <br />She looks like something that should be good <br />But she is just an imitation of her wishes.<br /><br />Wanda Swim Strunk<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-you-were-metal/
