Her Duplicity

she is scarred so deep inside yet she chooses to remain beautiful the gloom of darkness engulfs her yet she dons a mask of brightness the stab of humiliation slices her yet she attempts to bandage her wounds in her solitary moments she keeps wondering if her life is worth living and the war she is waging, worth the struggle she is a pearl locked in an oyster but unless someone digs it out its lustre will be lost to the world and shall perish in the caverns of the sea trapped and enslaved...... will she break the shell herself and come out? from slushy swamps, will she walk to gilded palaces? from a pawn on the chessboard, will she ever rise as the reigning queen? indeed she is beautiful n' divine her worth is beyond measure don't take her to be a tiny bug to be swatted at and done away with!