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Crack The Pieces:

Crack the pieces to glue them back together stronger

Sometimes the pottery needs to shatter

The Japanese line their cracked pottery with gold so that the piece may last longer

And do not see the lines as an imperfection but a beauty that matters

Because the cracks reflect that it has been through Hell and back

Only to become even more so beautiful in the eye of the beholder 

So just like pottery, sometimes we must let the pieces crack 

Your insides will splinter no matter the year, no matter how older

Your memories range and your nostalgia grows hazy 

For some vases cannot ever again hold water

But that does not mean they are not beautiful or any less useful 

You must let yourself crack 

In order to fill the pieces and come back

To the depth of your own beauty. 

~J.K.M.

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