Stress On the Chain
When you try to break a chain,
you pull and pull, and pull some more, right?
You don't try to give it time to think about it and try again,
do you?
No, you push it and push it until it snaps,
with little shards going evry which way,
and it falls limply to the ground,
shattered and broken,
like the little squirrel hit by a semi truck,
though a little less splattered...
it's still broken all the same.
You can't put it back together, unless you get out the welder,
but people aren't little rings of metal you can just
melt back together.
No, they are flesh and blood.
You can't expect them to heal in a day,
now would you?
Stress the chain and it will break.
Stress the human, and she shatter.
Copyright © Sharon Downer | Year Posted 2006
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