Saccharine
ARC

like a diamond
you see her
glittering, divine
hard and frost-cold
strawberry hair
skin like sugar
stare
you know you want to
lick and taste
artificially flavored
that's all she is
all she'll ever be

helpless I watch you
pulled in deeper
thinking you love her
you - love - a - robot
popularity prototype
emptiness inside
echoes through
her sugar-cubist smile

to be cupid for a day
I'd break off the arrow in your heart
why can't you see
she's fake, your high-fructose goddess

try something real
for a change
look around
see all the real girls
real people surrounding you
not afraid to get messy
they laugh and cry and think and feel
spilling raw emotion everywhere
smiling, frowning, loving, un-sugar-coated
and r-e-a-l
one-hundred-percent human
grades A through Z
try them all while supplies last

one day you'll wake up
from your saccharine dream
and discover the difference
between what you see and
what - you - deserve
find better
find reality
it's all around you
forget your rock candy princess
and find another someone
a real, imperfect, lovely someone
to break her hollow mold