Kintsukuroi

Fill my cracks with gold,
so that I may shine
in all the broken places.

Author's Note

Kintsugi, also known as Kintsukuroi, is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. -Wikipedia

Reviews

[Zugzwang]

Awesome metaphor. Don't go getting soft on me, now!

[Gaia Octavia]

Who me? Never!

[Coffee Vampier]

Ah I remember that from someone talking to me about it. It's kinda like that meat in a persons life. Everything can be broken but if you shine through the broke pieces of life and hold onto the quality in you, (or anyone) you shine beautifully

[Gaia Octavia]

Thanks for ur thought ☺

[Coffee Vampier]

No problem :)

[Gaia Octavia]

😆 .

[Coyote Poetry]

I liked the hope and the wish of the poem. Gold would make the cracks shine bright. Thank you Gaia for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[Gaia Octavia]

Thank you for your kind review

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome.

[seth bauman]

i love this so much. i want it framed on my wall, and engraved on my tombstone.

[Gaia Octavia]

Thank you very much 😊 The pic isn't mine but feel free to print and slap it on ur wall 😉

[HeyJadeXO]

This is very innovative writing.Great piece

[Gaia Octavia]

Thank you ☺

[Asante]

To take the art of restoring broken china and apply that metaphor to making better of a broken person, that just reads as stellar to me. Kintsugi. :)

You wrote this as well as it could've been written, in so few lines, but simultaneously just enough lines to pack a very strong punch.

Excellent, my friend, excellent!

[Gaia Octavia]

Thank you very much, it means a lot to me that you understood and enjoyed this. :-)

[Asante]

My pleasure; I definitely understood it. :)
The title even reminded me of a Death Cab for Cutie album title as a funny aside, aha.
Keep up the stellar writing!

[Gaia Octavia]

Haha nice :-) Will do. You as well!