When you're broken
You have to hold in the pieces
And never let yourself
Love too deeply or hope too much
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oh, thats gorgous. be my friend... lol i am so impressed. i must read it again.
Your poems always have an earthiness to them, a sense of the natural, but there's also spirit and transendence. 'When you're broken/You have to hold in the pieces' sounds like something someone said a long time ago, and now it's been ingrained in our memory forever, something people will repeat to themselves all the time, when they're dealing with hard times. I probably sound crazy, but that's the feeling I get from reading your work.
I love this poem. It's true. You have to be careful or you might fall apart. (Emotionally, at least.)