With time
You set it down on the table in front of me,
I sat for awhile looking from you to it.
Torn, ripped, a hole from to hard of use.
You ask me to mend it,
repair what was broken.
I ask you if it will stay fixed this time,
as always you say yes.
Inspecting the inside,
debating if I should mend from the inside out,
or just repair the outside,
be done with it.
Always the question to fix quickly,
or slowly, with time and care.
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There's a certain ambiguousness to this piece
Francine,
Was this ambiguous by design or did you figure that most readers would assume that you were talking metphorically about a heart?
Denzell
Yes Denny
I did do that intentionally, it can be read simply as mending something or mending a heart that had been mended before but still needed attention and maybe some healing. A lot of what I write is metaphor. That's why I say I write for myself. I tend to think this way. Frannie