This poem is a sharp, critical reflection on someone perceived as shallow, materialistic, and emotionally insincere. The speaker describes a person who relies on charm, beauty, and manipulation to gain attention or advantage, but ultimately lacks depth and authenticity. They reject this person’s “glittered” exterior, seeing it as a façade driven by a desire for wealth and status rather than genuine connection. The speaker underscores that a life built on greed and appearances will eventually collapse, leaving behind emptiness.
In the end, the speaker firmly distances themselves, acknowledging that what they once believed to be real love was actually transactional. The poem closes with a warning: that beauty and material success are fleeting, and that anything built on superficial desire or vanity will eventually fall apart, leaving only emptiness when time strips those illusions away.
You circle close with glittered eyes,
A smile that’s sharp, a practiced play,
But I can see through thin disguise—
Take all that hollow charm away.
You chase the shine, the fleeting gleam,
As if that’s all a life can be,
But I’m not part of that tired scheme—
There’s no such place for you with me.
Your beauty blooms, but not for long,
Time humbles every borrowed crown,
The mirror shifts, the light goes wrong,
And all that once drew crowds breaks down.
What’s built on want will crack and fall,
No borrowed gold can make you whole,
The reckoning will come for all—
You can’t outpace an empty soul.
I’m not falling for that plastic face,
I’ve drawn the line, you are no jewel,
No space for you or what you chase—
Go find another heart to fool.
I thought your words were pure and true,
But now I see they were just lies,
The love and feelings I got from you—
Were just transactional in disguise.
Marry rich was always your goal,
to chase the image you pursue;
But nothing there will make you whole—
No shortcut fixes the truth in you.
Gold digger you are, so hear me now,
Your fleeting gains won’t let you stay,
No gilded prize can teach you how
To keep what time will take away.
