wind chime (trying to get back into poetry)

I have a dolphin wind chime hanging from the ceiling of my room.
It's blue, the three wind chimes have silver stripes, and the dolphins hang from almost invisible string.
It's made of fragile glass, and i remember many times being told that i needed to be careful with it.
Be gentle, Emily. 
It's fragile, Emily. 
Don't break it, Emily. 
I got it somewhere in North Carolina, on one of the famed trips to Sunset Beach with my family.

It's one of those souvenirs you are so proud of at first.
you must show everyone, but be careful; no one should touch it, no one should spoil it's gentle chime

I was so anxious to hang it up in my room.
Since my mom told me it was too fragile to hang up outside, i chose to keep it in the safety of my bedroom ceiling.
It has hung there ever since.


i think the strangest thing of all is that
it is a dolphin wind chime
yet it has never been kissed
by wind or water