Glass
When you break a glass bottle
You're supposed sweep it up
You don't hope someone else will pick it up
Or wait til someone slices their feet open on the shards you left behind
You can't glue it back together
The glass bottle you destroyed will NEVER be the same
You can't put a glass bottle back together
You shouldn't even try
Because the shards will tear your skin to pieces
And all you will be left with is
Bloody hands
Fragile
But you broke it anyway
You left all the shards
In a broken heap on the floor
No one will pick it up
No one has the time to make a new bottle
You broke a glass bottle
You can't get it back
Go find a new bottle
You'll probably break that one too
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