Prize Winning Poetry

Kintsugi (n)- the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver or platinum.

It is now broken

Nothing more than shards

Something once beautiful

Something which held such value

Something which mattered

Has shattered

Littering itself across a hard floor

Taking up space

Risking the safety of those around it

Since the shards broken so hardly

So entirely

Can cut deep as a response

Though it was not their fault they broke

Broken they now are

And they are cursed to return the favour

To any who dare approach

Liquid gold

Melted platinum

Spun silver

Painted so carefully on the edges

Sharp enough to slice

Now softened

By a coating

Of the sweetest sap

Allowing the pieces to bond

To realign

To find each other again

And with the right care

With the right commitment

With attention to detail

And with genuine want to be better

Something more beautiful is created

The cracks only serve to tell a journey

And the value is heightened

Nothing is definitive

Nothing is unfixable

One only needs only find their glue

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