Art Poetique

"Let your verse be the thing in motion"

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Mortality

We are stories in the sink

Some fine china, some earthenware,

Some fired, some adorned,

All awaiting the same fate.


All, at the end, tarnished and soiled

From merriment and gluttony, 

Some chipped, some cracked,

Still serviceable

Until irreparably broken.


Soak a little, before the scrubbing;

Beware the pitfall of the drain,

And be raised, clean and sparkling 

Once again.






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