Tired Doll

dolls are made to be loved, but dolls aren't made to love. dolls are made to be a comfort and a friend, a companion through the hardest and scariest parts of our lives, but they always hope they'll be outgrown.

and one day you'll move on, packing the doll away. move after move, new start after new start, always carefully placed in its box.

until, time comes, when it ends up in that last box; that last box you'll “get to someday”, that box of things you never consciously miss.

that is the true home of the doll.