Kintsugi

Time and time again

The vessel that holds our lives

Falls apart

In surveying the damage

You see the center crack that runs

Far right and then

Jeers to the left

You see the broken ridges of

People lost and gone

How the slices of memories

Damage your heart

What is left behind

Is where life spills out in grief

Still

Tenderly, as you would

You pick up and mend

Even as life runs away from you

Even as the shards hurt

Even as the past bleeds out

What is left is never the same again

Tending to the wounds is honoring

The past that never was

As the gold shines through the brokenness

Bittersweetness life is held

Where everything fell apart

The center holds

Just one more time…