Today, I learned a new word: Kintsukoroi. It means:
"To repair with gold". The art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been made broken.
This is the poem that came to mind.
Kintsukoroi
"To repair with gold". The art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been made broken.
The pot lay whole on the sideboard
Precious and special
Full of memories, hopes and dreams
Many had touched it, held it, cradled it
Children, adults, visitors, strangers
Many had admired it
Some had love it
Few had hated it
For what it was and what they weren't
Precious and whole
But one day, the perfect was shattered
Perfect pieces flew across the cream white carpet
Peaceful shards dug in deep
And the perfect felt despised
The whole felt shattered,
Its perfection broken,
Its pieces scattered.
No-one walked near
Hands held back
For where is the beauty in brokenness?
Yet one came near
One saw the much loved pot
Saw past the brokenness
Knew the pot it had once been.
Piece by piece, He mended
Tending each crack, one at a time
Splinter by splinter
Piece by piece
And in the cracks He mended the brokenness with beauty
With gold and love He set the pieces in place
Until the pot was whole again
Broken now made whole
Its brokenness inlaid with gold
It's cracks boldly shining
For they made the pot even more beautiful than before
Kintsukoroi
More beautiful for having been broken
And lovingly restored.
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