Breaking In a Pane
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How strange that we rely on panes of glass
to keep us safe at night, when break ins loom.
Glass is so fragile; breaks so easily.
Yet we all feel safe behind sheets of glass.
We install heavy dead-lock doors in brick, steel, wood and concrete walls.
But in those walls and next to those doors
are windows of easily breakable glass.
All it takes is a tap on glass to break a pane, for entry in to gain,
Then a thief's hand can reach in, and around, to open the door,
Or the the intruder enters by clambering or crawling through a shattered window.
Perhaps burglars are afraid of the pain of glass cuts, or the sound of glass breaking in?
Perhaps it is bad luck to break a pane of glass, holding their reflection?
Copyright © John Anderson | Year Posted 2017
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