Kintsukuroi - Golden scars

Ready for the weekend? Here's a prompt to keep you alive. It's this week's episode of delight over at The Queen Creative and we are told:

Kintsukuroi is a Japanese noun meaning “to repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

Firstly, it's a great word. Just say it out loud a few times. Cheaper than a yoga breathing class. Secondly, it has made me write another poem. Poems come to me in a dash, I can't help them. And once they are down I find it very difficult to change them. These poems of mine, I think they might be broken. But if you, by any chance, have any gold handy to help them out, like words, please stitch them together below. You can make them more beautiful, after all. Much appreciated. 

Golden Scars

Time ravages everything. 

Nothing can be saved. 

Wind whispers, stones crumble

People age, art fades.

Times pieces together meaning

For us to see its place

And beauty lies not just in colour,

Nor stone or stature, nor form or face.

Time cracks and wrung hands plead

Nothing stays as it should

But what is a painted Acropolis

Or Machu Picchu with a roof?

Time’s golden scars tell tall tales

A slashed, re-beautified tribe

Of carefully broken and re-pieced pieces

That are given second lives. 

So time, while ravaging, stitches richly

And the wind will wind its way

Through crumpled hearts and history,

Yet everything can still have its day.

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