Kintsugi:
“The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
“As a philosophy, kintsugi is an embracing of the flawed or imperfect. Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear from the use of an object. This can be seen as a rationale for keeping an object around even after it has broken; it can also be understood as a justification of kintsugi itself, highlighting cracks and repairs as events in the life of an object, rather than allowing its service to end at the time of its damage or breakage.”
You are bent:
Barely breathing.
Longing, loathing.
Seething.
Overtired, overthinking.
Endless streaming (tears).
Frozen.
You are broken:
Shattered, useless.
Helpless.
Hopeless.
Without reason (homeless).
Without power.
You, Imposter.
You are mended:
Two hands, one smile.
Four fingers and a flower.
Silver sunset, dancing child.
Not so lonely.
Not so fragile.
You belong.
You are golden:
Reborn, awoken.
Proof of life.
Dreamless dreams.
Paradox.
Bursting at the seams.
Shine on, you crazy diamond.