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Stained Glass Heart

February 11, 2022
By Mangolemonade PLATINUM, Houston, Texas
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I am a stained glass girl

with a stained glass heart.

I am a collage of jagged edges,

a tapestry of patched pieces,

a portrait of fragments.

I am shards and scraps and splinters,

the remains of ruined things,

fused by pain and memories

into something like art.

 

I am more beautiful when I am broken.

I am stronger when I am fractured.

I am more perfect when I am not whole.

 

I am a stained glass girl

with a stained glass heart.

You will never shatter me, 

no matter how hard you try.

© Rebecca Y., Los Angeles, CA

The author's comments:

This piece was inspired by my struggles with self-acceptance. The journey to accepting who you are is long and difficult, and it is easy to think that we you are alone, that there is nobody else who is going through the same things that you are. This poem is meant to be hopeful and express the message that even though everyone is broken, we are still beautiful.

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on Feb. 20 2022 at 12:09 am
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"A writer must never be short of ideas."<br /> -Gabriel Agreste- (Fictional character- Miraculous)

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Nice poem, especially the last stanza which is hope-arousing...Good work getting this on editor's choice...