From Glass to Granite

Amanda Machado
1 min readMay 31, 2019

There are seven wonders of the world

I thought you were the eight

We were on cloud nine

We drove away at ten

Eleven dollars in my pocket

Midnight was too soon

Two years later

I think I’ve had enough

I clung to you unnaturally

You want to be king?

I’ll leave you at your palace

As I walk away from the flames

I know there are seven wonders of the world

I am the eighth one

I can be a queen without

A king by my side

I drove home

I learned a valuable lesson

I need to love who I am

I need to respect myself

Before giving my heart

To someone else

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Amanda Machado

28 year old Floridian who loves coffee and spending time between the pages of a book.