Shatter
A free verse poem
Beautiful crystal glistens in the sun
Unaware of what will become
A howling wind shakes the glass
A gentle touch takes a violent path
One line traces down to the stem
Outlining the flaws in him
Desperate to fly, wings begin to form
Like nothing I’d ever seen before
The line grows branches and spreads its wings
But it was too late to try to cling
The spanning wings stretch too far
Reaching outward where the edges are
They separate at the spine
All because of that one line
The gap between the two halves of me
Makes me forget just who I used to be
Looking at the past hairline fracture
Hope was too hard to capture
All it took was one final touch
For the destruction to erupt
The first piece crumbled, reaching for the other
Attempting to hold on, but why bother?
Taking different shapes
They laid there in their place
Scattered on the wooden planks.
