10.09.2008

New poem

Dangers and Side Effects

Breakage is unavoidable.

You will bleed.
It is one of the risks
Of ownership.

Sometimes,
The pain will overcome you,
You will fall to your knees
and hear it beating,
Altered, scarred but intact.

Yes, the changes are permanent,
But the pain is temporary.
Crying is recommended.

It’s a mercurial muscle.
It can shatter,
and each piece will reach out,
Grab others and pull itself together.

Oh,
It’s usually bigger than before.

This was also posted at Sorting The Pieces.

4 comments:

TJ said...

Keep writing, keep reaching, tears are not a sign of weakness.
We ALL need someone to lean on especially when the journey we have traveled has had all the twists that you have endured.
Thinking of you always,
TJ

Nancy said...

Ooh...very nice. I think that the final piece of the broken pieces is always bigger and much, much stronger.

Nancy

Anonymous said...

Thinking of you as you sort the pieces.
Hugs,
V

Anonymous said...

That which does not kill you..............

Excellent, Cybthia!