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Ballad of Golden Lacquer

Without your touch the world is bleak. The sun is lightless Compared against your radiance, So bright I’m sightless. Coincidence will not explain How right this all seems. The comfort felt in our embrace. The sensuous dreams. Perfection can’t, in truth, exist. Allow destruction. A fracture can be mended whole With apt instruction. A golden joining strengthened by Commiseration. Your hand in mine, we start again On new foundations.

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Becca Teagan

Date: 11/3/2017 4:03:00 PM

I love this, it makes me think. Especially love the third stanza. By the way, I'd like to invite you to introduce yourself on my blog...

Becca Teagan
Date: 11/4/2017 11:31:00 PM

I wrote one like this too once, about Kintsukori, which is the same thing I think! Wow, knowing your poem was inspired by Kintsugi, makes me appreciate it all the more as I read it again, like "a fracture can be mended whole" and "a gold joining" ... Awesome!

James Daddario
Date: 11/3/2017 4:35:00 PM

I was inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese tradition of embracing damaged items by mending them with gold resin. I'll definitely check out your blog!