Kintsugi
(Japanese art of repairing broken objects, often ceramic pottery or glass. Traditionally, gold lacquer is used to piece shards together again, creating a more beautiful object through the acts of breaking and repair.) We are all broken pieces, Lying asunder. Our limbs, veins, sinews Scattered on pilgrimage paths But mostly, it is our hearts Broken into invisible shards Like fallen houses into disrepair Though the walls may seem intact Some of us have been battered By storms we couldn’t face, Or by disguised vandals Whom we welcomed as our own Yet most of us lie broken From within, not without Our own selves our nemesis Imploding from within in grief But it is not in lying broken That our faults lie – Our sorrows burden for We await for ourselves To turn anew, reborn in enchantment Or worse still, we await for others To put us together To join us once again But the truth, sad though it i...
